- they’re all following this jesus nonsense instead of the old roman religion
- they only know what it’s like under the empire and not the glory of the res publica
- all of them want to follow weird greek fashions like writing poetry and growing beards instead of following the mos maiorum and wearing togas
- they’re all so used to this cushy “pax romana” nonsense that none of them want to conquer anything like their ancestors did, and they probably don’t even remember carthage
- they have no idea what it was like living before the common era
- have any of them ever risen up on their own to depose a king or stab a tyrant? i think not