Did anyone actually notice the bloom was off the rose? It's more likely the moment quietly came and went. The empire was, by no means, at an end. Its fortune would ebb and flow for centuries yet. But the greatest empire the world had ever know was now slipping through Rome's grasp. Whatever you choose to call it, arrogance, greed, corruption, cynicism or simple bad luck, whatever it was, one day the slow decay of power and glory began. And the Roman Empire ceased its splendid rise.
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