i'm not going to pretend that the caesarian agenda (and the agenda of later imperial autocrats) to deliberately cultivate a cosmopolitan political system and society to better serve their totalitarian ends didn't result in a genetic shift in the roman population, but that doesn't change the fact the corruption/inefficiency of the republic itself was well-documented and even criticized by its supporters in its day. you're making an argument that i'm arguing something i didn't bring up.
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