"I call BS."

Read the entire thread if you please, before calling me a BS-er


An interesting perspective to the reasons for Res Publica Romana falling is two statements.

*The excellent diplomat Kineas when he came back to Pyrrhos/Pyrrhus in 279 or 280 BC could report that the Romans had refused peace negotiations and had been outraged when he offered them "Bribes" (gifts were a common part of Greek diplomacy, but the uncouth Romans may not have known this), and that Rome was "a city of Kings".

*~150 years later Jugurtha called Rome "a city for sale and doomed to quick destruction, if it should ever find a buyer", the difference being the intensification of the aforementioned competetion for power and magistracies. It was always possible to find an ambitious Roman needing money.