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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 3050617, member: 83956&quot;]Pure idle speculation here. But I wonder if it had something to do with some lingering anxiety over the emerging principate and the abandonment of Republican Rome, for all intents and purposes. Would &quot;looking backward&quot; in the early years of Empire prompt a dangerous nostalgia for the Republic and its more egalitarian approach to government? I can imagine Augustus, Tiberius, etc. saying, &quot;Keep looking forward Romans! Nothing to see back there!&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, such speculation is problematized by the fact that Augustus was very &quot;nostalgic&quot; for Trojan or pseudo-Trojan origins. But maybe he would&#039;ve been just fine with people forgetting the grand traditions of the Republic of Cincinnatus or Pompey.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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