romanus

Updated: June 15, 2025

Others relate that Romanus, the son of Odysseus and Circe, founded the city, or that it was Romus, the son of Hemathion, who was sent from Troy by Diomedes; or Romis the despot of the Latins, who drove out of his kingdom the Tyrrhenians, who, starting from Thessaly, had made their way to Lydia, and thence to Italy.

Plutarch - Plutarch's Lives, Volume I

Before the procession moved towards the Imperial sepulchre, a herald proclaimed this awful admonition: "Arise, O king of the world, and obey the summons of the King of kings!" The death of Constantine was imputed to poison; and his son Romanus, who derived that name from his maternal grandfather, ascended the throne of Constantinople.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4

The unhappy provincials implored the protection of Romanus; but they soon found that their military governor was not less cruel and rapacious than the Barbarians.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2

To say nothing of Paul and Peter, men anciently of the family from whence your husband came, there was Ignatius, who was cast to the lions; Romanus, whose flesh was cut by pieces from his bones, and Polycarp, that played the man in the fire. There was he that was hanged up in a basket in the sun, for the wasps to eat; and he who they put into a sack, and cast him into the sea to be drowned.

John Bunyan - Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03

Romanus, elated by impunity, and irritated by resistance, was still continued in the military command; till the Africans were provoked, by his avarice, to join the rebellious standard of Firmus, the Moor. His father Nabal was one of the richest and most powerful of the Moorish princes, who acknowledged the supremacy of Rome.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2

At the city-gates they met Romanus, the general in command of the Imperial army, with his staff of officers, and he, drawing rein by the great merchant's carriage, had asked him, pointing to Constantine, whether that were his son. "No," replied Porphyrius, "but I wish he were."

Georg Ebers - Serapis — Volume 03

With the loss of two hundred and thirty men, the Arabs remained masters of the field; and the ramparts of Bosra, in expectation of human or divine aid, were crowded with holy crosses and consecrated banners. The governor Romanus had recommended an early submission: despised by the people, and degraded from his office, he still retained the desire and opportunity of revenge.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5

Romanus, where two flanking towers had fallen into the ditch and opened a passage into the interior of the city. The gate of Charsias and the quarter of Blachern were also assailed by chosen regiments of janizaries in overwhelming numbers. The attack was made with daring courage, but for more than two hours every point was successfully defended.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 : The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation

The stripe, the shoes, and the crescent mark his senatorial standing. That which marks him as a citizen at all is the toga an article of dress forbidden to any inhabitant of the empire who could not call himself in the full sense "Civis Romanus." St.

T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker - Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul

She concluded by asking to speak with Constantine the prefect of cavalry, or with the Comes Romanus, to whom she and her father were well known.

Georg Ebers - Serapis — Complete