No “empire sine fine”

No “empire sine fine”

Emperor Hadrian commissioned the construction of a border structure in northern Roman Britain, later named Hadrian’s Wall (Aureus, 125–127).
BPK / coin cabinet, SMB / Bernhard Weisser

Emperor Augustus still dreamed of a world empire "sine fine" - without borders. But at some point his successors began to build walls and ramparts around their dominions. Rome was not the first ancient great power to resort to such means.

Hadrian was a man fond of travel. Many thousands of kilometers laid

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