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And both those cities are capitals of the empire , the hog butcher and the team thief - - it was only twenty-three years ago that the Colts ' former owner trucked his club out of Baltimore one night . We have traced the evolution of the festival , seen it take its rise soon after the victory of the Catholic doctrine of Christ 's person at Nicea , and spread from Rome to every quarter of the Empire , not as a folk-festival but as an ecclesiastical holy-day . Thinking of Augustus , the founder of the Empire , could well have stirred Antonia to what she was about to do . " Winneburg , " he said slowly , " you shall apologise abjectly for this insult , and that in presence of the nobles of this Empire , or I will see to it that not one stone of this castle remains upon another . Then again , he stood politically alone , since Rome was the sole metropolis of the West , while in the East there were three capitals of the empire , Constantinople , Alexandria , and Antioch . This ancient sanitary law , like many other of the admirable laws of this empire , is said to be by no means punctiliously carried out ; and that Canton is a very healthy city , and that pestilences of any kind rarely gain a footing in it , may be attributed rather to the excellent plan of sending out the garbage of the city daily to fertilize the gardens and fields of the neighborhood , than to the vigilance of the municipal authorities . These patriarchs , in the official sense of the word as already fixed at the time of the fourth ecumenical council , were the bishops of the four great capitals of the empire , Rome , Alexandria , Antioch , and Constantinople ; to whom was added , by way of honorary distinction , the bishop of Jerusalem , as president of the oldest Christian congregation , though the proper continuity of that office had been broken by the destruction of the holy city .