Sentence examples for roman master from inspiring English sources

And her Roman master may have honored her wishes, possibly because he fell in love with her or even married her.

Suppose the relation of the unconscious to the conscious is analogous to that of a cultivated Greek slave in service to an overbearing Roman master.

This is the last of the Roman master's monumental endeavors and he thought long and hard about it, making more preliminary studies for it than for any other sculpture.

The Western provinces had only lately entered upon their own course of urban development under the not-always-tender ministrations of their Roman masters.

In reality, it was a false trail that misled Hollywood for the better part of a century.Jesus was a tough egg, preaching lessons as radical and unpalatable to the Jewish establishment as to its Roman masters.

Just as local Indians trot out their traditional folk dances for travelers today, the Spartans reenacted their harsh, testosterone-fueled rituals for the pleasure of their Roman masters, even though they'd all gone soft years before.

Rome was also plagued by several slave uprisings during this period, in part because vast tracts of land had been given over to slave farming in which the slaves greatly outnumbered their Roman masters.

Rome was plagued by several slave uprisings during this period, in part because in the past century vast tracts of land had been given to veterans who farmed by use of slaves and who came to greatly outnumbered their Roman masters.

The Romans were master planners.

There were lots of pretenders to the throne running around first-century Israel, gathering people in the desert in the manner of Moses, promising liberation from the Roman slave-masters.

While the ancient Romans were masters of gradually accumulating populations and making them participants in the empire, the Spanish, on account of their immense pride, spurn any integration whatever with other peoples.