The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · ¶618
2d. The Roman character, in which the political always predominated over the religious party. The Romans were contented with having bowed the world to a uniformity of subjection to their power, and cared not for establishing the (to them) less important uniformity of religion.—M.Read in context ›
Edward Gibbon · Project Gutenberg #731 (Milman edition) — public domain
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