Why Rome is called the "Eternal City"!?
Different cities had been called "eternal city" during the history, but Rome was the only that has kept this name for years. This is Albio Tibullo credit. He was a latin poet who few people know, but in the past he was famous for his erotic poems. On the second book of "Elegie", he imagined a remote period and wrote "Romulus Aeternae nondum formaverat Urbis moenia" that we can translate as "Romolo didn't build the wall of the eternal city". This is the first and more ancient reference to the eternal city until now.
Someone thinks that the author of this epithet is the Imperator Adrian, but it's not true.
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Why Rome is called the "Eternal City"!?
Different cities had been called "eternal city" during the throughout history, but Rome was is the only one that has kept this name for years. This is because of Albio Tibullo credit. He was a latin poet who few people know, but in the past he was famous for his erotic poems. On In the second book of "Elegie", he imagined a remote period and wrote "Romulus Aeternae nondum formaverat Urbis moenia" that we can translate as "Romolo didn't build the wall of the eternal city". This is the first known and more ancient reference to the eternal city until now.
he imagined a remote period = I'm not sure what you mean here
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Why Rome is called the "Eternal City"!
Different cities have been called "eternal city" throughout history, but Rome was the only one to have kept this name for years. This is to Albio Tibullo's credit. He is today a little known latin poet, but in the past he was famous for his erotic poems. In the second book of "Elegie", he imagined a remote period and wrote "Romulus Aeternae nondum formaverat Urbis moenia" that we can translate as "Romolo didn't build the wall of the eternal city". This was the first and most ancient reference to the eternal city until today.
Some think that the author of this epithet is the Imperator Adrian, but that is not true.
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