The Making of a Caesar | Guest: Furius Pertinax | 5/3/23
The Auron MacIntyre Show
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The Adaptability of the Romans
The Romans were hugely adaptive people particularly early in their history. And so the Romans were perceptive, you might say to their own weaknesses to a point and it's what made the rooms I think outrageously successful certainly in the first half of the civilizational room. Even the founding fathers would have understood this by having knowledge about Rome that a standing army is something that for people who value freedom in the true sense of the word are standing army can be not always but can be a risk to that. So there's also that consideration as well.
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