| The history of the Roman Empire figures in this story, but so do the Arabs and the Germans and the Slavs. |
| As people in the Roman Empire were described as Romans, they distinguished individuals by their class or occupation. |
| He also helped to establish the Roman Empire on a much more rational basis. |
| Voltaire's gibe about the Holy Roman Empire was literally true but, like all such glib gibes missed the essential point. |
| Thus Atticism in the Roman Empire continued to be used long after it became incomprehensible to those without special training. |
| By placing himself above everyone else, he demolished the democracy in the Roman Empire and the equality of all Romans. |
