To: Modernman
Let's not be silly or disingenuous and push off Rome, then when I say name them, your first one is Rome!
To: joyspring777
I said the Roman Republic. That's quite different from the Roman Empire. The citizens of the Republic would have been as horrified by Caligula and Nero as we are.
200 posted on
08/08/2005 12:51:13 PM PDT by
Modernman
("A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy." -Disraeli)
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