It was. At least the historians credit the war you led to changing things in Rome.
You've seen the worst of me and the best. Maybe in my younger years, I would've tried to change your mind, but now I've been humbled. I never got caught up with titles or who was technically and formally a citizen of mine. If they were in my lands and under my care, they were Roman to me. [Being a dead empire does that.]
No, and it took many centuries for even my former underlings and provinces to outlaw such a thing.[But he doesn't want to sound too cynical.] I had a few people outlaw it briefly, but they usually got assassinated and overruled pretty quickly. [What did he add? It's hard to explain.] What you added, as you put it, you created a story and legacy reminding citizens of how fragile their place in society is.
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You've seen the worst of me and the best. Maybe in my younger years, I would've tried to change your mind, but now I've been humbled. I never got caught up with titles or who was technically and formally a citizen of mine. If they were in my lands and under my care, they were Roman to me. [Being a dead empire does that.]
No, and it took many centuries for even my former underlings and provinces to outlaw such a thing.[But he doesn't want to sound too cynical.] I had a few people outlaw it briefly, but they usually got assassinated and overruled pretty quickly. [What did he add? It's hard to explain.] What you added, as you put it, you created a story and legacy reminding citizens of how fragile their place in society is.