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Rome. Virgil makes Jupiter tell Venus he would give to the Romans impeʹrium sinë finë (an eternal empire). (Æneid, i. 79.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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