Chapter Roland to Romance of the Rose of R by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano (1492–1546).

Adrian van Roomen, mathematician, Andrianus Romanus (1561–1615).

Roman Achillês, Sicinius Dentatus (slain B.C. 450).

Roman Bird (The), the eagle, the distinctive ensign of the Roman legion.

Roman Brevity. Cæsar imitated laconic brevity when he announced to Amintius his victory at Zela, in Asia Minor, over Pharnacês, son of Mithridatês: Veni, vidi, vici.

Poins. I will imitate the honourable Roman in brevity.—Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV. act ii. sc. 2 (1598).

Sir Charles Napier is credited with a far more laconic despatch on making himself master of Scinde in 1843. Taking possession of Hyderabad, and outflanking Shere Mohammed by a series of most brilliant manœuvres, he is said to have written home this punning despatch: Peccavi (“I have sinned” [Scinde]).

Roman Daughter (The). Valerius Maximus (v.4) tells us of a young Roman lady who nourished her mother in prison, as the Grecian daughter (q.v.) nourished her father. The mother was under sentence of death, but the jailer deferred the execution, and allowed the daughter to visit her, but searched her to see that she carried no food into the prison. (Pliny, in his Natural History, vii. 36, repeats the story. Festus Changes the mother into the father).

Roman Father (The), Horatius, father of the Horatii and of Horatia. The story of the tragedy is the wellknown Roman legend about the Horatii and Curiattii. Horatius rejoices that his three sons have been selected to represent Rome, and sinks the affection of the father in love for his country. Horatia is the betrothed of Caius Curiatius, but is also beloved by Valerius, and when the Curiatii are selected to oppose her three brothers, she sends Valerius to him with a scarf to induce him to forego the fight. Caius declines, and is slain. Horatia is distracted; they take from her every instrument of death, and therefore she resolves to provoke her surviving brother, Publius, to kill her. Meeting him in his triumph, she rebukes him for murdering her lover, scoffs at his “patriotism,” and Publius kills her. Horatius now resigns Publius to execution for murder, but the king and Roman people rescue him.—Whitehead (1741).

(Corneille has a drama on the same subject, called Horace (1639), the basis of Whitehead’s tragedy.)

Roman des Romans (Le), a series of prose romanc es connected with Amadis of Gaul. So called by Gilbert Saunier.

Romans (Last of the), Rienzi the tribune (1310–1354).

Charles James Fox (1749–1806).

Horace Walpole, Ultimus Romanorum (1717–1797).

Caius was so called by Brutus.

The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!
It is impossible that ever Rome
Should breed thy fellow.
   —Shakespeare: Julius Casar, act v. sc. 3 (1607).

Romans (Most Learned of the), Marcus Terentius Varro (B.C. 116-28).

Romance of the Forest (The), the best of Mrs. Radcliffe’s tales (1791).

Romance of the Rose, a poetical allegory, begun by Guillaume di Lorris in the latter part of the thirteenth century, and continued by Jean de Meung in the former half of the fourteenth century. The poet dreams that Dame Idleness conducts him to the palace of Pleasure, where he meets Love, whose attendant