Pax Romana
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin Pāx Rōmāna, from pāx (“peace”) + Rōmāna (“Roman”), apparently coined by Seneca the Younger in 55 CE and popularized in English by Edward Gibbon in his c. 1776 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Proper noun[edit]
Pax Romana
- (historical) The long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire between 27 BCE and 180 CE.
- Synonym: Pax Augusta
Coordinate terms[edit]
- See pāx
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