We were all Romans once, I guess.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.
I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.
The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.
When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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