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“Will there be a denial of rights, freedom and privileges for non-Roman Catholics?”

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2021

Roman writers such as Pliny, Tacitus and Suetonius labeled Christianity not a religio but rather a superstitio, or a "superstition," a term usually applied to non-Roman, foreign practices.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2021

In other cases, the worship of non-Roman gods was so popular that it simply could not be suppressed in the few cases in which Roman leaders saw a need to.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

The ribbon’s twists and turns even suggest the shapes of numbers and characters in non-Roman languages.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2016

All Italy contributed to the Latin stream, but at no time did any non-Roman dialect rise to the distinction of a real literature.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)