Pax romana

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire between 27 BC and 180 AD. historical
Noun
  1. 1
    the Roman peace; the long period of peace enforced on states in the Roman Empire wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Pāx Rōmāna, from pāx (“peace”) + Rōmāna (“Roman”), apparently coined by Seneca the Younger in 55 AD and popularized in English by Edward Gibbon in his c. 1776 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

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