ocr: AN EMPIRES ENDURING REACH HISOWN MCCOUNT, Quintus Horatius centuries after the walls of Rome came tum- Flaccus was a rotten soldier. He bling down. fought for the losing side in the As noted in last month's article on the rise civil wars; when the order came to. and fall of Roman power, the small farming "Charge!" he dropped his shield. village on the banks of the Tiber grew to con- and ran like mad in the wrong direction. Back trol the whole Mediterranean world- -one of in Rome he landed a post as a petty bureau- history's greatest achievements in the sheer art crat, a quaestors clerk -not mu ...
