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To a Roman (in the Late Republic/earliest Empire) what did it mean to be "civilized" and who, besides themselves and I guess the Greeks, was "civilized"? The (Ptolemaic) Egyptians? The Persians? The far-off Indians?

by /u/screwyoushadowban in /r/AskHistorians

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