#and livy describes it in extra super virtuous language even as it is extremely in no way virtuous......
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when the virtue machine fucking broke............
#titus livius hashtag sallustcore moments virtue machine broke understandable have a nice battle of the allia#when you're a roman envoy and you commit the Big Moral Crime of not being neutral and fighting alongside the etruscans#and livy describes it in extra super virtuous language even as it is extremely in no way virtuous......#'tantum eminebat peregrina virtus' like 'so much did the foreign (as in they are romans among etruscans) virtue shine forth'#but also ouhfoghuouhgohgf what if hashtag roman virtue Was No Longer Roman even at the moment that it was its most#blatantly roman and blatantly virtuous#this is so sexy sallust recite the bellum catilinae#hashtag ben jonson secretly translating lucan to describe the battle of pistoria They Knew Not What A Crime Their Valour Was#virtue machine BROKE#livy#beeps
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