...the Roman Empire ; and when we remember how much value was attached by distinguished Roman families at the end of the Republic and at the beginning of the Empire to Trojan lineage, it will appear altogether natural that the nations incorporated with the...

...fulfilment under the Flavian emperors. The first great step in the urbanization of the region had been taken at the end of the Republic and at the beginning of the Principate, between the last years of Caesar and the end of the reign of Augustus, a period in which...