I am Gaius, John Batser, Germanicus, Mark of Laosus here, and we step aside from our

role of looking two thousand years ahead for the conflict in Europe to admire an article

that appeared in the Washington Post in these last days, and then another article that appeared

in the National Review Online asking a provocative question, how often do men think about ancient

Rome? The conclusion from the Washington Post is quite frequently it seems, and the conclusion

from the National Review Online, I believe, Rich Lowry, the Editor-in-Chief wrote the

piece quite frequently, and Germanicus and I are very pleased because we think about

the Romans empire all the time since we are enjoying the fruits of the Roman Empire, and Germanicus

it is a pleasure to see that in the 21st century distracted as they are by AI and the economy

and the war in Europe, and also music, I understand these are young people, that they spend

time thinking about Rome, and they want to know why they think about Rome. Well our observation

is of course they think about us, we built what they are enjoying, we built the concept

of law, of military, of conquest, of negotiation, of architecture, we built it, now the Greeks

want to elbow their way in here, as a message to the 21st century, the Greeks work for us,

Germanicus isn't that a tell, who works for whom?

Always, and yet the Greeks are very subversive, and the Greeks will take over our empire in

just a couple hundred years, so we can be satisfied, but we shouldn't be too complacent because the

moment that the emperor Constantius has a victory parade through Rome in 362, and the Romans

are angry and muttering beneath their breath, oh these Greeklings, they've taken over, so let us

beware of what the future holds for us, but men today see the Roman Empire and they see

the world that they would like, not the Roman world as it was, but the Roman vision

in Stantiated here today, they like a Roman order, which is symbolized most often by architecture,

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