English Explanatory Dictionary

Pax Romana

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire between 27 BC and 180 AD.

Word forms

Pax Romana

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 publication Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776).

Synonyms

Pax Augusta
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