[ WP ] Rome never collapsed and is still a major power .

A silly attempt. Sorry. 
 
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 Titus Silvius Berlusco sat on his sleek design throne, stroking the smooth black surface with his stubby fingers. Jobbes, that Anglo sunovabitch, had done it again. To be honest, he could n't care less about how the design looked or what clothes he wore. As long as they made one thing clear: that he was with the times. Nay, that he was *on top* of the times. Maybe a few years ago, he would have bothered with a toupet, but now he was confident. He was *Caesar*. Bald is attractive if he said so. 
 
 
 
 He watched as the inaugural games of the Silvisione Amphitheatre unfolded. The gladiators' costumes provided a gaudy contrast to Silvius' black throne. An entangled mess of neon pinks, greens and yellows assaulted his eyes as the burly men assaulted *each other* with styrofoam *gladii*, occasionally pushing each other over the playing fields' barriers into the enraptured crowds. As he chuckled at the gladiators' antics, he quietly lamented the homosexuality of the spectacle, thinking back to the days of yore where there was actually danger of people, y'know, *stabbing* each other. The world had grown soft and decadent. 
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 TBC...?
