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roman

Text that is roman is upright (not slanted or italic).

Roman

A person from Rome or the Roman Empire.

Roman

From the city of Rome. From the Roman Empire. Similar to something from Rome or the Roman Empire.

roman

a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions

Roman

a resident of modern Rome relating to or characteristic of people of Rome Roman virtues his Roman bearing in adversity a Roman nose of or relating to or derived from Rome (especially ancient Rome) Roman architecture the old Roman wall (= Roman Catholic) of or relating to or supporting Romanism the Roman Catholic Church characteristic of the modern type that most directly represents the type used in ancient Roman inscriptions an inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire

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Simple sentences

I'm looking for books on Roman history.
In the 6th century, the Anglo-Saxons adopted Roman characters.
Although 475AD is the year that shows the 'decline' of the Roman Empire, it is not the year of its 'fall'.
The Holy Roman Empire came to an end in the year 1806.
I am a Roman citizen.
My neighbor found a cache of ancient Roman coins using his metal detector.
The expansion of the Roman Empire wiped out a considerable number of the original European languages.
The Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist in 1806.
The Roman Empire survived for a thousand years.
Does a Roman cat have a Roman meow?
Hong Kong Chinese who know only English as a foreign language never learn the efficient use of the Roman alphabet.
He was the last Arch Seneschal of the Holy Roman Empire.
Thermae were Roman baths.
I was deeply impressed by Roman architecture.
There are many Roman statues in the next room.
Tom doesn't know the difference between Rome and the Roman Empire.
Do you understand Roman numerals?
The archaeologist is studying old Roman ruins.

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The ancient Roman ruins here at Caesarea in israel are a pretty potent reminder of that.
In the space of just a generation, in the fifth century AD, the Roman Empire in Western Europe essentially fell apart - the aqueducts dried up, the roads overgrown, the circuses deserted.
And he said Greek-Roman!
A Roman lady.
Can't a Roman lady itch?
With a Roman army waiting at the border?
Under Roman guidance.
Look at the Roman eagle with half the world in his claws. tamed by a woman.
The Roman Senate will get a thrill today.
She will think the meeting a friendly discussion. on Roman and Egyptian affairs.
Waiting for her, I suppose, like you and me and the whole Roman army.
Roman dogs.
I need Roman soldiers now.
At his magnificent Roman estate, the Marquis of X prepares for his guests.
Knight of the Holy Roman Empire, Envoy Extraordinary. from His Majesty Philip, King of Spain, Aragon and Castile.
If Caesar had ever met Angel, it would have changed the history of the Roman Empire.
Roman gladiator.
What do you mean, Roman gladiator?
Ever hear of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire?
Just one of those shipboard roman. acquaintances.
In Roman Catholic countries, it's feasting and merry-making.
I shall feel like a Roman emperor of the Decadence.
Today I'm going to draw the plans for a splendid villa with a big roman bath.
High and low alike become Roman slaves Roman hostages.
On a Roman cross in Judea, a man died to make men free to spread the gospel of love and redemption.
Soon that humble cross is destined to replace the proud eagles that now top the victorious Roman standards.
It's a Roman holiday for every editor in New York.
On the other hand, we do know. the only antiquities found on the rock. were some Roman coins.
Ladies and gentlemen, we will now sing you a beautiful Roman song.
He has no more directions in the true disciplines of the wars, look you, of the Roman disciplines, than is a puppy-dog.
Carnival is the last three days preceding the Lent which, in Roman Catholic countries is given up to feasting and merry-making.
It's just the thing for your Roman profile.
You're a Roman.
There's something so regal, so Roman Empire about it, it suits you.
Gallo-Roman.
A Gallo-Roman treasure.
Gallo-Roman?
And anybody who sits around and lets it happen. keeps silent about something he knows has happened. shares the guilt of it just as much as the Roman soldier. who pierced the flesh of our Lord to see if he was dead.
There was a Roman captain, a dark-haired boy, who taught Latin to a blonde girl.

News and current affairs

Conversely, the Western Roman Empire did not succumb to another state, but instead to internal decay and swarms of barbarians.
For the key audience for this meeting of Muslim king and Roman Catholic Pontiff was not their followers, but another conservative leader, President George W. Bush.
Like the Roman Catholic Church in the years of Solidarity's struggle in the 1980s, the Serbian Orthodox Church is widely seen as a surrogate for our lost national identity.
Mayor Basescu wants to be the next leader of the Democratic Party (now led by former Prime Minister, Petre Roman) and is said to be preparing to run for president in 2004.
That's why some commentators, inflaming the tensions, speak of barbarians at the gates and compare Europe's situation to the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire.
What I said, instead, was this: I might, as a practicing Roman Catholic who adheres to his Church's teachings, think that homosexuality is a sin.
While the Reformation was supported by national elites seeking to throw off Roman hegemony, integralist Islam seeks to unify the community of believers by liberating it from the Western-imposed model of separate Muslim nation states.
For a majority of Russian citizens, economic prosperity and televised entertainment have become the modern equivalent of the panem et circenses formula of Roman times.
This was known to Vitruvius, who wrote about Greek and Roman engineering more than 2,000 years ago.
What originally entitled a university to corporate status under Roman law was its pursuit of aims that transcend the personal interests of any of its current members.
More than that, the arrest of DSK was supposedly revenge for France's protection of another man accused of sexual crimes, Roman Polanski, and for the French ban on the burqa.
If not as old as ancient Rome, it certainly goes as far back as the tenth-century Holy Roman Empire.
In his pre-Christmas speech to the Roman Curia, the pope did not mention rape, let alone the sexual murder in Delhi.
The irony of this remark is that in the Philippines, a country of more than 100 million people, of whom four out of five are Roman Catholic, it is precisely the Church that has been the ideological colonizer.
The Founding Fathers worried about comparisons to the decline of the Roman republic.
Universal jurisdiction originated in Greek and Roman times in the struggle against piracy.
As Kissinger emphasized, the Middle Kingdom of China's dynastic era knew nothing of the Roman Empire, and vice versa.
This differs markedly from Europe's shared Greco-Roman-Christian civilization.
The 1648 Peace of Westphalia reduced the number of independent units in the Holy Roman Empire from 3,000-4,000 to 300-400.
In Roman mythology, Janus was the god of gates, doorways, beginnings, and endings.
As a Roman Catholic and as the person asked by Prime Minister David Cameron to supervise government arrangements for the visit, I was naturally delighted.
The changes go much deeper, which explains how a country with a huge Roman Catholic majority has chosen to be led by a woman who is a socialist, an agnostic, and an unmarried mother.
Consider what a change in leadership has done for the Roman Catholic Church: Pope Francis is transforming an institution that was thought to be so byzantine, opaque, and intractable that change was all but impossible.

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