Ancient Romans exchanged gifts of figs and honey and would make sure to work part of the day as a good omen for the coming year.
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The Ancient Greeks and Romans carried ruby flags into battle.
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Tribes killing their neighbors and burning their fields were now depriving the Romans of soldiers to conscript and produce to tax.
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In the second century, wealthy Romans served to their guests a confectionary treat containing cannabis.
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Romans first cultivated vines there in the 2nd century B.C., and viticulture flourished.
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Crossing the river Lykus into the plain, Mithridates offered the Romans battle.
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Apart from theatrical representations and gladiatorial combats, the Romans had an inordinate passion for chariot races.
Architecture|Thomas Roger Smith
Later in the year, the mutinous spirit having been quelled, a counter-expedition was made by the Romans into Arzanene.
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The news of the Pope's barbarous revenge drove the Romans to madness.
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In all these points, they rather conceded the pre-eminence to the ancient heathens, the Greeks and Romans.
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British Dictionary definitions for Romans
Romans
/ (ˈrəʊmənz) /
noun
(functioning as singular)a book of the New Testament (in full The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans), containing one of the fullest expositions of the doctrines of Saint Paul, written in 58 ad