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Cilicia, yes.
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Yet another example of the advantages
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of living under Rome's influence.
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Along with the improved ports, trading routes,
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shipping, laws, music, poetry.
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We like to think that our cultural interaction
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goes both ways.
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This festival of Pentecost,
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which we are currently celebrating,
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commemorates our link back to the Laws of Moses,
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and yet enhances our role in the modern world.
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A role that, thanks to Roman tolerance,