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"Puls every day? What is this? 2 AUC?"
The Romans actually even kept a little mud hut in the middle of the city of Rome, supposedly the preserved residence of the founder of the city, Romulus. Rather than being gussied up to shine the LEGEND of the FOUNDING of ROME and the deified Romulus, it was kept (one presumes as much as the generational memory allowed) in its primitive, small, unimpressive form. This was partly as a reminder of how far human/Roman ingenuity had come since the days when the most powerful man in the city, the literal king of Rome, lived in a dingy little hovel that even the imperial-era Roman working poor would turn up their nose at!
The past was to be honored, but also surpassed whenever possible!
Not the worst way to view the past to be honest