Learned borrowing from Latin Pāx Rōmāna, from pāx (“peace”) + Rōmāna (“Roman”), apparently coined by Seneca the Younger in 55 AD and popularized in English by Edward Gibbon in his publication Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776).
释义
专有名词proper noun
1historicalThe long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire between 27 BC and 180 AD.