"The Stability and Continuance of the Roman Empire", Edward Gibbon
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>Aequa nonnunquam regna perpetuo manent. ~~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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can't tell if irony or meta-contrarian
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which non-roman ethnicities do you think the romans ought to have "integrated"?
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Of course they did. But the ethnically-Roman population of Gaul, Hispania, Illyria, etc. was always a tiny fraction of the total. (And the bulk of the population was in East)
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And moreover they were constantly importing cheap labor - i.e. slaves - into Rome itself, so the population of the imperial capital was least-Roman of all
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