Roma Aeterna - Vaillant observes that the Genius of Rome bears a Victory in her hand, as conquerer of the world, and that the peculiar epithet of Eternal as applied to Rome is one which Livy, Ammianus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Symmachus severally employ, either in prediction of her perpetual domination, or for the purpose of distinguishing her from other cities.