"I can't speak for Ancient Rome, but humanity has always had a tenancy to find new and inventive ways to hurt each other." His village had been the victim of that tendency. Dozens of people wiped out like so much dust in the wind. Nothing left of all that had been there but dust.
"But an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. Revenge buys us nothing. The true victory is to change the world so those atrocities can never happen again."