Famous Quotes | Before anything else [Numa]...

Before anything else [Numa] decided that he must instill in his subjects the fear of the gods, this being the most effective measure with an ignorant, and at that time uncultured, people. - Titus Livius (Livy)
Attribution: Titus Livius (Livy) (59 B.C.–A.D. 17), Roman historian. Histories, I, 19.

Categories: Gods, Historian, Religion

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