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The idea that current generations are less manly and morally upright than their forefathers is basically the defining trope of Roman literature.

Yup, when your founders were fathered by Mars and suckled by a she-wolf, you can only go downhill from there.

Interestingly, in Latin, a she-wolf (lupa) is slang for a prostitute.

For some inexplicable reason I feel that it is much more likely that they were nursed by a prostitute than by a wolf ;-)

I think that is the the defining trope of the older generation.