26. Q. For what did the Romans all live? A. For the state.
27. Q. What was the one business of the state? A. Conquest, in a two-fold sense: first, subjugation by arms; second, consequent upon subjugation, rule by law.
28. Q. What is said of the cultivation of letters by Rome? A. Letters she almost wholly neglected until her conquest of the world was complete.
29. Q. In what way did the Romans make peace with other nations? A. They never made peace but as conquerors.
30. Q. What course did the Romans take in regard to whatever superior features they found in the military scheme of other nations? A. They did not hesitate to transfer and adopt it into their own.
31. Q. What nations in turn enjoyed the honor of furnishing to the Romans the model for their sword? A. The Spaniards and the Gauls.
32. Q. From whom did Rome learn how to order her encampment? A. From Pyrrhus.
33. Q. From what people did Rome learn to build ships? A. From the Carthaginians.
34. Q. As soon as Rome had conquered a people what did she make that people? A. Her ally.
35. Q. What phrase has Rome made a proverb to all time of false dealing between nations? A. “Punic faith.”