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The principal conquests of the Romans were achieved under the republic; and the emperors, for the most part, were satisfied with preserving those dominions which had been acquired by the policy of the senate, the active emulations of the consuls, and

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This marked the end of the Roman Empire of the West and its Latin culture, 这是西罗马的讲拉丁语的帝国的结束， together with the long period that goes all the way back to prehistoric times, which we call antiquity. 所以人们也把这

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Chapter 24 第二十四章 The roman empire 罗马帝国的故事 How the republic of Rome after centuries of unrest and revolution become an empire 罗马共和国历经数世纪的动乱和革命，终于变成了罗马帝国 When the Roman armies

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Octavian remained in Rome, but Antony went to Egypt to be near Cleopatra with whom he too had fallen in love, as seems to have been the habit of Roman generals. 渥大维留在罗马，而安东尼去了埃及。似乎罗马将军都有爱江 山更爱

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Justinian was quite the catch, young and rich. Determined to restore the western part of the Roman empire from the barbarian hordes, he used his generals to conquer the land throughout Mediterranean and Africa, expanding the borders of the eastern Ro

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A Roman citizen living abroad always retained his separate status, for he lived according to Roman law. 但是一个罗马公民始终跟一个当地人有很大的区别。他按罗马法行事， Wherever he happened to be in that vast empire, he c

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But Simon was a nutter. Simon had tremendous presence like an emperor. He sat still and silent, and in his contest between flesh and the devil, it seemed to most people, that he was beyond touch. And there he was, on his pillar, half way between heav

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Among them were some remarkable men, one of whom was the Emperor Trajan. 其中也不乏神奇的人物，如皇帝图拉真， He lived about 100 years after Christ and, long after his death, people were still talking about his justice and his gentl

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The man there is Justinian, the emperor who 200 years after Constantine completely remade the Roman Empire, the man who made Byzantium. He was a man, they said, who was gentle and approachable, a man who never showed his anger, a man who in the quiet

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