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Your view of Greece is limited, I'd say. The Romans were pretty good at making a wilderness and calling it peace, but they were not more warlike than the Greeks, just more successful at war.
- restalis 11y agoI think the right quote written by Tacitus was "they make solitude and call it peace".
- cafard 11y agoThe root of the word is indeed solitudo, "ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant", but the dictionary (that is, the one on-line and in reach) supports "desert" or "wilderness": http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DS%3Aentry+group%3D51%3Aentry%3Dsolitudo http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...