> literally read any history book about the subject matter you mean the history books totally not filled with political agendas? we don't even fully grasp the full history on the roman republic as 70% of the works of its' contemporary historians (polybius, sallust) have been lost to history, and what little we do know comes from later roman imperial sources filtered through the sensibilities of their current emperor who was generally hostile and censorious towards pro-republican sentiment. what we know from modern genetic science is that ancient roman republicans were a separate race genetically to the imperial romans - who had over 50% admixture with near eastern dna - and according to some pioneering studies in polygenic testing had vastly higher iq levels and thanks to unrelated works demonatrating the link between genetics and behaviour, would have possessed a different sentiment to the imperial romans as well. > how otherwise shall families continue? how can the commonwealth be preserved if we neither marry nor produce children? surely you are not expecting some to spring up from the earth to succeed to your goods and to public affairs, as myths describe. it is neither pleasing to heaven nor creditable that our race should cease and the name of romans meet extinguishment in us, and the city be given up to foreigners, - greek or even barbarians. we liberate slaves chiefly for the purpose of making out of them as many citizens as possible; we give our allies a share in the government that our numbers may increase: yet you, romans of the original stock, including quintii, valerii, iulli, are eager that your families and names at once shall perish with you. emperor augustus. cassius dio 56 the downfall of republican rome was not well documented, but it was well sanitised.
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