521 The Empress Messalina (with Honor Cargill-Martin) | My Last Book with Robert Chandler
The History of Literature
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The Importance of the Emperor in the Empire
The idea that Rome should be a republic has not disappeared entirely after the assassination of polygula. The exhaustion of that is still carrying through and saying, well, these leaders are awful, but the system at least isn't like what it was at the end of the Republic. They're a talk to see a very tired and the Empire at least makes them very, very wealthy because it's very stable. And so I think that that is there are real pragmatic things in favor of an emperor,.
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