Eternal City RP - The Online Roleplay Community. Please follow the below chat rules to help keep the chat orderly. Please keep all chat to PG- 1. Please do not spam the chat or use excessive capital letters. Please use // before OOC posts. Please do not advertise other sites. Please respect - -, (c) and > > as signs of continued posts and wait for the post to finish before speaking. Please refrain from talking OOC whilse there is a RP going on 7) Please try to avoid lurking on chat and come out of PC and roleplay when you can. Why is Rome called the Eternal City? Rome was known as the Eternal City even among the ancient Romans themselves. It was so called because the Roman people thought that no matter what happened to the world, no matter how many other empires might rise and fall, Rome would go on forever. Tibullus (5. 4- 1. B. C.), Roman elegiac poet, and Ovid (4. B. c.- iy AJX), one of the greatest of the Latin poets, as well as other Roman writers, refer to the city as eternal, and the thought is expressed in many official documents of the Empire in later days. In Vergil’s Aeneid Jupiter tells Venus that he will give the Romans imperium sine fine, “an empire without end.” The phrase was popularized by The Eternal City (1. Hall Caine that deals with a Utopian state in Rome. It is found in Latin as early as the twelfth century, and Pier Angelo Manzolli, Latin poet, quoted it in Zodiacus vitae about 1.
John’ Heywood included - it in his collection of English proverbs in 1. The saying, of course, refers to the fact that Rome was of slow but steady growth, that many centuries were required to make it the chief city of the world, and that great things are not achieved without much patience and effort. Augustus Caesar is reputed to have said on his deathbed: “I found Rome brick and I leave it marble.” Claudius Clau. The Eternal City is a nickname famously referring to the city of Rome. The Eternal City may also refer to: The city of Kyoto, Japan, specifically the historical Heian. It has over 3 million people and is the capital of the department of Antioquia. It's set in a valley running south.
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