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Pax Romana Summary

in Roman religion, personification of peace, probably recognized as a deity for the first time by the emperor Augustus, in whose reign much was made of the establishment of political calm.

An altar of Pax Augusta (the Ara Pacis) was dedicated in 9 &BC; and a great temple of Pax completed by the emperor Vespasian in &AD; 75.

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