I love how haphazard and chaotic this is. Rome as a city, like | Imperium Press

I love how haphazard and chaotic this is. Rome as a city, like Rome's institutions, grew up over time organically and the shapes of both were the result of long weathering of selective pressures. To the outsider the Roman mos maiorum looks like a junkshop of random parts, a mad scientist's workshop full of redundancies, incoherence, and caprice. And yet it laid the legal, cultic, and political foundations of everything that came after. If you think that's random, you might as well tear up a bunch of letters on a piece of paper, throw them up in the air, and call it "random" when they land on the ground and read: NATVRAM EXPELLES FVRCA TAMEN VSQVE RECVRRET