Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell was a book that took its title from the speech that was given in what British city?
Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell is a 1998 book by the English writer Simon Heffer. It is a biography of the politician Enoch Powell. The title is taken from Powell's 1968 Rivers of Blood speech when Powell quoted Virgil's "Aeneid": "As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood".
Colin Henderson Roberts Colin Henderson Roberts (8 June 1909 – 1990) was a classical scholar, publisher and Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press. He received the 1973 Birthday Honours for services to papyrology. He was born on 8 June 1909 in Queen Elizabeth Walk, Stoke Newington, London.