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Hello and welcome to the history of Rome. Episode 121 Phase 3 complete.

Way back in Episode 51, I talked about the generation of Romans who grew up

during the factional conflicts of Salah and Marius. Spent their middle years

embroiled in the political wars of the first triumvirate and if they managed to

survive, they then died in old age having just been dragged through two decades

of civil war. It was a generation that knew nothing of the golden ages of Roman

history that had come before them and would come after them. There's was a

world where cross ambition and an indifference to the rule of law led to a series

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