Roman peace

noun

1. the establishment and maintenance of peace by armed force.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Roman peace¹

Translation of Latin pāx Rōmāna

Example Sentences

“The Gauls became Gallo-Roman after having a taste of Roman peace and civilization,” Zemmour writes.

From New York Times

“Without Alexander the Great, who took the Greek language all over the continent, and without the Pax Romana, the great Roman peace time, and the roads built by the Roman government, Paul and the apostles wouldn’t have been able to travel as freely and safely as they did,” Armistead said.

From Washington Times

Alec Guinness plays Aurelius as a weary—dare we say Stoic?—intellectual who wants a Roman peace that all foreigners can join, not as slaves or as clients but as citizens.

From The New Yorker

The Macedonian power broadened the foundation of polity eastward and westward; and this work was carried as far perhaps as sword and fasces could carry it by the power of Rome.22 But even the Roman peace, bought as it was at the cost of learning and the arts, was but a mechanical peace; in the wilder, more turbulent and more heterogeneous peoples of the later Empire the bodies but not the wills of men were in subjugation.

From Project Gutenberg

It is true, indeed, that the Empire of Alexander, the spread of the Hellenistic Greek, the prevalence of Greek in Rome itself, the Roman roads which made the Empire traversable, the Roman peace which sheltered the preachers of the faith in the outset of their work, gave them facilities to travel and to be understood.

From Project Gutenberg