An Invitation to Nobility

The Moral Virtue of Freedom and the Purpose of these Pitchfork Papers

Apparently, in the approximately 500 years of the Roman Empire stretching from 44 BC (Julius Caesar’s assassination) to AD 476 when the last emperor Romulus Augustulus was effectively pensioned off by the barbarian invader Odoacer, there had been 90 individuals tasked with ruling the slowly disintegrating structure. Of those 90 only one in four, so arou…