>>82436089
Rome is just an endless accretion of barbarian after barbarian though? Even their founding myth is about how a bunch of outcast Latins showed up in Romulus' town and then raped the women of a different people, the Sabines
Roman collapse happened because after Adrianople they were too weak to force barbarians to assimilate and let them form states within the state, and because emperors were more worried about Roman usurpers (who would kill them and their families) than barbarians (who would set up their own kingdoms in distant provinces) and dealt with threats accordingly