Thayer's
STRONGS NT 4516: ῬώμηῬώμη,
Ῥώμης,
ἡ (on the article with it cf.
Winers Grammar, § 18, 5b.; (on its derivation cf.
Curtius, § 517;
Vanicek, p. 1212;
Pape, Eigennamen, under the word)),
Rome, the renowned capital of Italy and ancient head of the world:
Acts 18:2;
Acts 19:21;
Acts 23:11;
Acts 28:14, 16;
Romans 1:7, 15;
2 Timothy 1:17. (1 Macc. 1:10 1 Macc. 7:1; (
Aristotle,
Polybius, others).) (On Rome in St. Paul's time cf.
BB. DD. under the word; Conybeare and Howson, Life and Epistles etc., chapter xxiv.; Farrar, Life and Work etc. chh. xxxvii., xliv., xlv.; Lewin, St. Paul, vol. ii, chapter vi.; Hausrath, Neutest. Zeltgesch. iii. 65ff; on the Jews and Christians there, see particularly
Schürer, Die Gemeindeverfassung der Juden in Rom in d. Kalserzeit nach d. Inschriften dargest. (Leipz. 1879); Seyerlen, Enstehung as above with der Christengemeinde in Rom (Tübingen, 1874); Huidekoper, Judaism at Rome, 2nd edition, N. Y. 1877; Schaff, Hist. of the Chris. Chnrch (1882) vol. i, § 36.)