The Romans always win until they don't
One of the most fascinating inscriptions from ancient Rome is the so-called 'Hisma inscription'. Written in Greek by someone named 'Lauricius' in probably the late 2nd century AD, it proclaims that: 'The Romans always win'. The sandstone slab was found in South Jordan, in Roman Arabia, on the edge of the Empire. The Hisma Greek inscription (G. Tanner
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