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(n.) Citizen of Rome, once the most prosperous empire on the face of the earth, now the pretty but lowly capital of a corrupt, dysfunctional pseudo-democracy called Italy.
"Sic transit gloria mundi", sighed Luigi the Roman, as Berlusconi was reelected.
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Initially a small hellenised city state in the Italian peninsula, Rome slowly overwhelmed its Latin neighbours and later the southern Greek cities after surviving a brutal invasion from Pyrrhus of Epirus, taking complete control of the peninsula.
Rome then was then engaged in three Punic wars with the maritime trading city of Carthage. The first of these bloody wars brought Sicily under complete Roman control, along with Sardinia and Corsica. The second and most important Punic war featured Hannibal's invasion of Italy, and through tactical genius he defeated them several times, most famously at Cannae. However Roman defiance ensured the state was pulled back from the brink of destruction and soon armies under Scipio Africanus secured Spain, then invaded Africa. The weary Hannibal was then soundly defeated at Zama, and Carthage sued for peace. The third Punic war after a brief struggle annialated the city of Carthago itself.
From there Roman power was unanswerable and major kingdoms and celtic tribes were subdued. The republic collapsed when Caesar turned on the capital, but continued under the Principate, a monarchy in all but name.
Roman rule ended in the third century B.C, it's military a shadow of its former self, and the ancient republican traditions abandoned. However, the Eastern Empire continued until medieval ages with it's capital at Byzantine or Constantinople.
The Romans are respected for being the founders of modern day democracy, and their military, architectural, social and administritive prowess. The collapse of the Roman empire brought about a dark age and under Europe plunged into the bloody medieval ages, setting back human advancement by hundreds of years.
(It is thought the bible was formulated initially by Constantine, and Christianity spread through the Roman Empire - hence purist Roman Catholosism exists today. Pagan my arse.)
The Roman Empire stretched from Spain to Syria, including the largest variety of cultures ever seen before, lasting at its largest point for four centuries.
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a manic romantic. a guy or girl that's super into you one day and then seems cold the next.
needy girl: "I don't get it. he called me every day last week and told me he loved me twice. now he won't even respond to my texts. wtf?"
me: "oh, that's cuz he's romanic."
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The Roman Empire was very powerful, especially in AD 117, when they controlled most of Europe. The emperor was Julius Caesar. (I think there were more, but I can't be bothered to list all of them.) They were very civilised, at the time, and apparently knew how to keep order.
1. Brian - "Bloody Romans"
2. Reg - "Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
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Euphemism for sadistic sex, used in sex ads.
Straight fucking only, no Greek, Roman, or French
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A more specific version of Kararing with minor differences, Romaning means Highly Faking your smartness/fact knowledge infront of a big gullible crowd in order to achieve a better reputation, a Valid opinion and be able to catch the privileges that only “smart” people get such as severe impressiveness.
Kararing and Romaning randomly started out as words from small chat servers and are now spoken casually and publicly by a decently sized community with Kararing and Romaning being words to be used as early as of August,2021.
-He was Romaning his date about the history of the fancy bread at the local bakery.
1. Roman Catholicism
2. Expert knowledge of Roman history
3. Patrioticism for Rome
4. Nationalist or facist philosophy of Rome
(Similar to a romanphilia. Please see the definition of romanphilia for more information about its meaning).
'The extreme form of Romanism believes that the Romans are a rare sacred superior race-created by Mars whom should be worshipped by foreigners as demigods, the Roman emperors are ressurected immortal gods, everyone should be like a Roman, the world should be Rome, the descendants of the barbarians should be dead to avenge Rome's fall and that if anyone who harms anyone or anything Roman should be put to death.'