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This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I am Gaius. Germanicus is here. We're Roman

citizens. And though we have this odd ability to see every century between now and the 21st century,

when we reflect upon analogies, we remember always that we're Romans and we have certain temperaments

that are sort of knitted into being Roman. We're living in Lundinium, so we're very far from Rome,

but that's because politics, as we practice, it would be dangerous in Rome. So we turn to

what does Rome worry about? We've gone over and over and over that Rome worries about the Dacians, sometimes said Dacians.

Depends on whether you're going to be fussy or not and talk like Cicero.

And the emperors that have crashed up against it, including the demission, will never completely succeed in solving that story.

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