Machiavelli rejected this idea of the empire and harked back, instead, to the model of republican Rome.

马奇亚维利拒绝这种,帝国的想法并回到先前论点，相对地，他回提罗马共和的模式。

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But you might say just as Machiavelli broke with the dominant model of Christian universalism, so too did he reject the ancient model of the small, autonomous republican state.

但各位也可读到,当马奇亚维利打破,处于优势之基督普遍主义模式的同时，他也拒绝了,古代模式的，小型自治共和国。

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