"Your task, Roman, and do not forget it, will be to govern the peoples of the world in your empire. These will be your arts – and to impose a settled pattern upon peace, to pardon the defeated and war down the proud."
The Roman Empire was an ancient state that controlled the Mediterranean and much of Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa during the classical period. The Roman Republic had previously conquered most of these territories, which later came under imperial rule following Octavian's rise to power and the establishment of the Principate in 27 BC. By the 4th century AD, the empire had divided into west
"The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved peace by a constant preparation for war; and while justice regulated their conduct, they announced to the nations on their confines, that they were as little disposed to endure, as to offer an injury."
Roman Empire"Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay. Our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man. The nobleness of life Is to do thus [Embracing]"
Roman Empire"The Roman Empire at its zenith collected taxes from up to 100 million subjects. This revenue financed a standing army of 250,000 - 500,000 soldiers, a road network still in use 1,500 years later, and theatres and amphitheatres that host spectacles to this day."
Roman Empire"Fecisti patriam diversis gentibus unam: profuit iniustis te dominante capi. dumque offers victis proprii consortia iuris, urbem fecisti quod prius orbis erat."
Roman Empire"To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire, and where they make a desert, they call it peace."
Roman Empire"The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing minorities and put themselves in their place. [...] The epoch of the masses is the epoch of the colossal."
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