@Original Author: SwordandBlood
Rome S02E03
羅馬 S02E03
In 52 BC, 400 years after the founding of the Roman Republic, Rome had become the richest city in the world, a cosmopolitan city with a population of 1 million, and the center of an embryonic empire. The Roman Republic was founded on the basis of shared power and fierce personal competition, and never allowed for personal dictatorship. But these principles of the Republic were gradually collapsing under the pervasive corruption and moral decline. The ruling class was extravagant and wasteful, and the traditional Spartan discipline and unity had disappeared.
西元前52年，羅馬共和國成立400年後，羅馬已成為世界上最富有的城市、一個擁有100萬人口的國際大都市和一個正在萌芽的帝國的中心。羅馬共和國是建立在共享權力和激烈的個人競爭的基礎上的，絕不允許個人獨裁。但這些共和國的原則在普遍的腐敗和道德淪喪下逐漸崩潰。統治階級奢侈浪費，斯巴達傳統的紀律和團結蕩然無存。