The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic

To Polybius and later Cicero, the Roman republican government at its apex was an interdependent system of shared power. In Cicero's words, at its height, the republic was quote, an even and judicious blend of the three simple forms of statehood at their best. It was through the use of this political machine that Rome succeeded in less than fifty-three years in bringing under their rule almost the whole of the inhabited world.