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Cicero liked to quote a poet about Rome’s foreign policy:

“Oderint dum metuant” (”Let them hate us as long as they fear us.”)

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Cicero liked to quote a poet about Rome’s foreign policy: “Oderint dum metuant” (”Let them hate us as long as they fear us.”)

Tacitus wrote about the Roman approach to war: "They created a desert, and called it peace".