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The nations call to mind certain images.

If I think of Greece, I see the columns of the Parthenon; Rome, Mistress of the World, is the Coliseum and the Arch of Trajan; and revolutionary France is the Arc de Triomphe." The Arch was even more, according to the Russian.

It represented a great historical retaliation; the nations of the South, called the Latin races, replying, after many centuries, to the invasion which had destroyed the Roman jurisdiction--the Mediterranean peoples spreading themselves as conquerors through the lands of the ancient barbarians.
Retreating immediately, they had swept away the past like a tidal wave--the great surf depositing all that it contained.