公元前一世紀一個羅馬人，Titus Lucretius Carus （後世稱 Lucretius），寫過一首長詩，叫《De Rerum Natura》（英文翻成“On the Nature of Things”）
詩裏有這樣文字：
“Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis,
e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem”
網上有現成的英譯：It is sweet, when the winds disturb the waters on the vast deep, to behold from the land the great distress of another.
還有：
“Suave etiam belli certamina magna tueri
per campos instructa tua sine parte pericli”
英譯：It is also sweet to contemplate the contending-forces of war, arrayed over the plains, without any share of thy own in the danger.
……
如廚房拉丁所言，Nihil sub sole novum :-)
