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Updated: May 9, 2025

The Egypt of the Occident counterbalanced the Egypt of the Orient, and Rome, half way between, was the natural and necessary metropolis of the wide-spread Empire. Gaul alone, revived, so to speak, the Empire in the West and prevented the European provinces even Italy itself from becoming dead limbs safely amputable from the Oriental body.

Guglielmo Ferrero - Characters and events of Roman History