SPQR stands for the Latin phrase, Senatus Populusque Romanus and refers to the Senate and People of the ancient city of Rome. In the days of the Roman Republic, the acronym found its way onto everything from grand monuments and legionnaire standards to coins and pothole covers. The emblem can still be found all over the city today in the most unlikely places, where it serves as a thin connection to the long vanished past.


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