ear:

"Memento mori,"
roughly speaking 'Remember
that thou art a man.'

As you may recall, Rome had become a
Republic, after the overthrow of its monarchy, and enjoyed a period of
Hellenistic influence, both in science and philosophy.

In its decline into the reign of the imperial, god-like emperors and their
increasingly idiot and sociopathic successors and sons, the elite became
utterly distinct from the people by self-decree. 'They would become as gods'
is a hallmark of an empire on the road to decline and decay, repeatedly
endlessly through history. It is the logical end of the will to power, in
which none will be served but oneself, with power as an obsessive distortion
of self-preservation and ego.

Death is the great leveler, and the balancer of the scales of fortune.

Perhaps a member of the middle class can whisper this to theIndigenous (ecology)

In biogeography, a species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention. The term is equivalent to the concept of native or autochthonous species. Every wild organism (as opposed to a domesticated organism) has its own natural range of distribution in which it is regarded as indigenous. Outside this native range, a species may be introduced by human activity, either intentionally or unintentionally; it is then referred to as an introduced species within the regions where it was anthropogenically introduced.

The notion of indigeneity is often a blurred concept, as is a function of both time and political boundaries. Seen over long periods of time, plants and animals take part in