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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7652340, member: 110504"]Terrific writeup and (--Yep) coins, [USER=72790]@kevin McGonigal[/USER]. What I found most incisive are your observations on how the later Republican Roman Empire was already stretched thin by its conquests, and how this led to increased emphasis on the military as an arm of government, with dire consequences to the state. (Broadly reminiscent of the Athenian Empire. Right, for better or worse, the phrase, 'republican empire' has never been an oxymoron.) </p><p>...Wish you could stop me: fast-forward a couple of centuries, after the relative calm of the Antonines, and the whole dynamic is replayed. Thinking there's a lesson here, somewhere....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7652340, member: 110504"]Terrific writeup and (--Yep) coins, [USER=72790]@kevin McGonigal[/USER]. What I found most incisive are your observations on how the later Republican Roman Empire was already stretched thin by its conquests, and how this led to increased emphasis on the military as an arm of government, with dire consequences to the state. (Broadly reminiscent of the Athenian Empire. Right, for better or worse, the phrase, 'republican empire' has never been an oxymoron.) ...Wish you could stop me: fast-forward a couple of centuries, after the relative calm of the Antonines, and the whole dynamic is replayed. Thinking there's a lesson here, somewhere....[/QUOTE]
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