Imperial Rome - Aska

They were rulers in name of the greatest empire ever known on earth

Centurions and soldiers, patricians and killers of noble birth

They held sway over lands;

the Sahara to northern Britannia

Barbaric Germania and what was then known as Hispania

The Julio-Claudian dynasty, the house of Severus

All heirs to the legacy of Caesar’s slaying led by Cassius

XXVIII legions here led by Augustus — Imperator

Yet power of conquest was tempered by rights of the senators

The glory of Rome — Ancestral home

Of those that put Christ in his place

The glory of Rome — Imperial throne

All yield to her holy embrace

The Praetorian Guard keep the Emperor’s law within the populace

The senate’s aware that their dictators last words were «Et tu Brutus?»

Watch lions of Rome feast on gladiator bones

This here be true sport of Kings!

See the Pontifex Maximus — gain absolution for all of your sins

The glory of Rome — Ancestral home

Of those that put Christ in his place

The glory of Rome — Imperial throne

All yield to her holy embrace

Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, and hail Cladius

Avitus, Olybrius, Zeno, and Florian and Julius Caesar!

Imperial Rome

Five Hundred years