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The 19th-century [[classicist]] [[Theodor Mommsen]] describes the "force" of ''auctoritas'' as "more than advice and less tha *Theodor Mommsen, ''Römisches Staatsrecht'', Volume III, Chapter 2. (1887)

'''[[Theodor Mommsen]]''' in his ''"[[History of Rome]]",'' suggested Rome collapsed with the co ...], and that all civilizations tended to go through the cycle identified by Mommsen. The cause of the fall of a civilization occurred when a [[cultural elite]]