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A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Beautiful.

In some ways, this is worse, because they hit metaphorical stairs the whole way up as well, and where the "top" is is a matter of what you want to measure.

It's very not-the-circlejerk, but maybe 13 should be "Rome never existed in the first place".

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Your correction should be "The Roman Empire...". The city of Rome existed without a doubt. (So did the empire, but it fits what you're saying.)

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The other answers use "it", so probably that if we're actually doing a rewrite.

I'm not worried about being misunderstood here, and natural language is intrinsically imprecise. But yeah, Rome the city is still there, and actually bigger than ever.