The ancient Romans often used mercury-tin amalgams for gilding their armor.

Later, under the Romans, cities in the empire often continued to issue their own coinage.

Discipline within the troops is often of greater importance ; at the Battle of Alesia, the Romans were greatly outnumbered but won because of superior training.

Troops were often actually used to storm enemy ships as used by Romans and pirates.

It has often been said Boethius was the “ last of the Romans and the first of the Scholastics ”.

The Epistle to the Romans, often shortened to Romans, is the sixth book in the New Testament.

While scholars are often able to determine aspects of the context of NT writers from their letters, it is much more difficult to understand Paul's letter to the Romans.

Scholars often have difficulty assessing whether Romans is a letter or an epistle:

In 1738, while hearing Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans read at St. Botolph Church on Aldersgate Street in London, John Wesley famously felt his heart " strangely warmed ", a conversion experience which is often seen as the beginning of Methodism.

It is possible that the similarity between the names " Huni " ( Χοῦνοι ) and " Hunnoi " ( Ουννοι ) is only a coincidence considering that while the West Romans often wrote Chunni or Chuni, the East Romans never used the guttural Χ at the beginning of the name.

Those who see biblical support for the doctrine of natural law often point to Paul's Epistle to the Romans: " For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another.

The Romans had a strong tradition of satirical poetry, often written for political purposes.

Panentheistic Christian Universalists often believe that all creation's subsistence in God renders untenable the notion of final and permanent alienation from Him ; they point to Biblical scripture passages such as Ephesians 4: 6 (" is over all and through all and in all ") and Romans 11: 36 (" from and through him and to him are all things ") to justify both panentheism and universalism.

* epiphany " appearing ": The Greek word epiphaneia was often used by Greeks to describe the glorious manifestation of the gods, and by the Romans as a title for the Emperor.

The Roman emphasis on constructing straight roads often resulted in steep slopes relatively impractical for most commercial traffic ; over the years the Romans themselves realized this and built longer, but more manageable, alternatives to existing roads.

In the provinces, the Romans often did not bother with a stone causeway, but used log roads ( pontes longi ).

The Circus still occasionally entertains the Romans ; being a large park area in the centre of the city, it is often used for concerts and meetings.

The Romans often broke the prisoner's legs to hasten death and usually forbade burial.

In practise he often used a shorter version: Albert, by the grace of God elected King of the Romans, always August, King of Hungary, Dalmatia and Croatia, etc.

Although it is often thought of as a British native wild flower, or to have been brought to the British Isles by the Romans, it was probably introduced around the early sixteenth century and is currently not a protected species in the UK.

Cheetahs were often associated with the god Dionysus, whom the Romans called Bacchus.

The family kiss was traditional with the Romans and kisses of affection are often mentioned by the early Greeks, as when Odysseus, on reaching his home, meets his faithful shepherds.

However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

The term allocutio was used by the ancient Romans for the speech made by a commander to his troops, either before a battle or during it, to animate and encourage them.

Nevertheless the Lombards viewed Italy as a rich land which promised great booty, assets Alboin used to gather together a horde which included not only Lombards but many other peoples of the region, including Heruli, Suebi, Gepids, Thuringii, Bulgars, Sarmatians, the remaining Romans and a few Ostrogoths.

* or Areian: the designation of an inhabitant of Aria ( a region in the eastern part of the Persian empire ; today's Herat ), used by the ancient and medieval Greeks ( as Ἄρ ( ε ) ιοι / Ar ( e ) ioi ) and Romans ( as Arii ).

The Romans also used cement, which reduced the variation of strength found in natural stone.

They retained the honour of the ancient association with the Romans, not required to pay tribute or taxes and used by the Romans only for war: " They furnished to the Empire nothing but men and arms ", Tacitus remarked.

First, the Romans stood their ground and used volleys of pila ( heavy javelins ) to kill thousands of Britons who were rushing toward the Roman lines.

Concrete technology was known by the Ancient Romans and was widely used within the Roman Empire.

The most commonly seen pattern is the grid, used for thousands of years in China, independently invented by Alexander the Great's city-planner Dinocrates of Rhodes and favoured by the Romans, while almost a rule in parts of pre-Columbian America.

The Romans used precursors made of reusable wax-covered tablets of wood for taking notes and other informal writings.

Martial used the term with reference to gifts of literature exchanged by Romans during the festival of Saturnalia.

The Romans also used death penalty for a wide range of offenses.

For example, he believed ( as most Romans ) that his ancestor Appius Claudius Caecus had used the censorship to introduce the letter " R " and so used his own term to introduce his new letters.

The word " cement " traces to the Romans, who used the term opus caementicium to describe masonry resembling modern concrete that was made from crushed rock with burnt lime as binder.

It was, in fact, nothing like any material used by the Romans, but was a " Natural cement " made by burning septaria – nodules that are found in certain clay deposits, and that contain both clay minerals and calcium carbonate.

Mixtures of ground pozzolan and lime are the cements used by the Romans, and can be found in Roman structures still standing ( e. g. the Pantheon in Rome ).

Mail Armour was introduced to the Middle East and Asia through the Romans and was adopted by the Sassanid Persians starting in the 3rd century CE, where it was supplemental to the scale and lamellar armours already used.

The Egyptians, Persians and other civilizations mostly used columns for the practical purpose of holding up the roof inside a building, preferring outside walls to be decorated with reliefs or painting, but the Ancient Greeks, followed by the Romans, loved to use them on the outside as well, and the extensive use of columns on the interior and exterior of buildings is one of the most characteristic features of classical architecture, in buildings like the Parthenon.

Romans did not mark same-sex relations as " homosexual " if an adult male used a slave or prostitute, characteristically a youth, as his passive partner ( see Homosexuality in ancient Rome ); these relations, however, were expected to play a secondary role to marriage, within which institution an adult male demonstrated his masculine authority as head of household ( paterfamilias ).