rome, n.Definitions

Rome is feminine.

Rome is representative of conquest.

Rome is a place to which all things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts.

Rome is the place that Caesar Augustus found a city built of brick, and left built of marble.

Rome 1s 2ecline was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Instead of inquiring why the roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprized that it had subsisted so long.

Rome is a mother. Rome is a whore. Rome can be domineering, imperious, corrupt, vicious. But rome can never be ungenerous. Rome gives all of her sensual pleasures, without stint.

Rome is a city greater than any upon earth, whose amplitude no eye can measure, whose beauty no imagination can picture.

Rome is a city frozen in time, a city that has not seen a modern building in more than half a century.