公元前一世纪一个罗马人，Titus Lucretius Carus （后世称 Lucretius），写过一首长诗，叫《De Rerum Natura》（英文翻成“On the Nature of Things”）
诗里有这样文字：
“Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis,
e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem”
网上有现成的英译：It is sweet, when the winds disturb the waters on the vast deep, to behold from the land the great distress of another.
还有：
“Suave etiam belli certamina magna tueri
per campos instructa tua sine parte pericli”
英译：It is also sweet to contemplate the contending-forces of war, arrayed over the plains, without any share of thy own in the danger.
……
如厨房拉丁所言，Nihil sub sole novum :-)
