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Iter, as m the Campm ]\Iartim ^ called fecond or nevp7{ome , in 
emuiation of old T^me, which he defigned and endeavored this 
fliould equal in all things. Accordingly he endowed it with 
the fame priviledges and immunities, and eftablilhed the fame 
number of Magiftrates , and orders of people, and divided the 
whole extent of it into fourteen Precinitsor Region?, accord- 
ing to the diviSon of l{ome. And the Gr^'^/^ writers were as 
elegant and extravagant in their commendations ofit^- but 
theufual title in their ordinary difcourfes and writings, when 
they had occafion to mention it without any flourifh, was ^ 
or U<nh)$ , that is, the Imperial City, to the fame fenfe 
with that of ^ SidoAius Apollinaris, 
Salve Jceptr ovum columen^'Reginaorientis^ 
Orbis l^ma tut. 
The country about it was afterwards called T{pmania in a li- 
mited and reftrained fenfe, (for that JR^mania was anciently 
the fame with orbis l^wianus, feems clear frorrt ^ Epiphanius ) and 
the people p«^^^o/. But I fuppofe this was not done till about 
the middle times of the Empire , when it began to decline. 
The Greeks ftill retain this name. For if you ask any of the 
Greeks born upon the continent oiThrace , what country man 
he is, he anfwers forthwith, p^W®* J^mios ^ for fo they pro- 
nounce it. The Tz^r^^j- in like manner call a Gr^^>^ Chriftian 
Vrum Gaour, or the Roman infidel, as they will call fomtimes 
theEmperour of Germany, Vrumler PW//!?^ or Emperour of 
the I^mans. Hence it wa$, that the latter Grecian Emperours 
ftyled themfelves H^tK^^^coiJiolm Kings of the Romans, that is,, 
fuchaswere born in and the other countries, which 
made up the Eaftern divifionof the Empire Tho perchance 
by this fiourifliing title they pretended aright to the Govern* 
c The ita ian word ii/Wc is a. raanifeft corruption of rre La^in wurd. • ; ' " ■ 
^ In Panegyrico, quern Bomse dixit Anthemio Augu o/b.sCor.fuli..^ 
«Haerefi LX iX. quce ef^ Ariariorun}'. ?e(^. 2. where he fays a fa i difmal-fire was kindled 
fxi^vij which feized almoft upon all Romania, or Univerfum Komanoruin iinperium, as 
renders it, but efpecially the Eaftern parts of it. 
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