For centuries, Rome appeared to her enemies to be “fearsome and terrible and unusually strong. ”
طَوَالَ قُرُونٍ ،‏ بَدَتِ ٱلْإِمْبَرَاطُورِيَّةُ ٱلرُّومَانِيَّةُ لِأَعْدَائِهَا ‹ مُخِيفَةً وَمُرِيعَةً وَقَوِيَّةً جِدًّا › .‏