so a senior statesman in the United States government and ho...	purple jet-lagged theater stage	05/13/25
Romans are overrated in a lot of ways	Boyish lodge	05/13/25
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He seemed to think otherwise.	purple jet-lagged theater stage	05/13/25

Date: May 13th, 2025 11:03 AM Author: purple jet-lagged theater stage so a senior statesman in the United States government and holds academic distinction at several universities. He made a comment which I'm still trying to parse and think through and I find his words are lingering and deeply affecting me and I find myself still thinking about them the next morning, especially the notes of contrast and unsatisfactory imitation he was drawing and the depth of influence and grandeur he was suggesting. We were finishing our soup course and the conversation had come to the ancient Romans, as it often does, and he said something to the effect of "Everything that they did afterward, the gothic tribes and kingdoms, the carolingians and their dwarf empires, the supposedly chivalrous times in the infancies of the English, French, German peoples, the Renaissance with their childish aping of the great civilization, and even into the enlightenment and romantic ages, surrounded themselves with the vestiges of the great civilization, all of it was done at the feet of the Romans, all of it was done in their shadow, all of it was a mere facsimile, a minor copy, a child imitating a father, and they played at the graves of the Roman giants who had come before them, and where once twenty legions swept across a plain and towering constructs touched the heavens and the most erudite of words and political philosophies and governance structures were developed, they brought out their bedraggled armies and rump kingdoms and imitated and affected classicalist texts, and all of it was beneath the shade tree of the greatness that had come before them." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724430&forum_id=2#48926678)

Date: May 13th, 2025 11:05 AM Author: Boyish lodge Romans are overrated in a lot of ways (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724430&forum_id=2#48926684)

Date: May 13th, 2025 11:06 AM Author: Cerise half-breed school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724430&forum_id=2#48926685)

Date: May 13th, 2025 11:08 AM Author: purple jet-lagged theater stage He seemed to think otherwise. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724430&forum_id=2#48926688)