But we can try to piece together some understanding of what their daily lives were like. And we have two points of reference here. One from Rome as it transitions from republic to empire, and another from Han China. So, let's look at the reference from Rome. So, just for a little bit of context, this speech that we're gonna talk about, this occurs in 42 BCE. People might remember that in 44 BCE, you have Julius Caesar getting assassinated on the Ides of March, and it throws the Roman Empire into a civil war. And so, this speech is given during that civil war because civil wars, they're not just bloody, they're also expensive.