So I think it's probably worth pointing out that, depending on how you count, these numbers don't really work, and that's hurting your argument. There was about 700 years of the Roman monarchy (thru 509BCE) and Republic (thru +/- 44BCE), then another 500 or so of the Western Roman Empire (thru 476CE) and a thousand or so more years after that of the Eastern Roman Empire (thru 1453CE)
It's totally disingenuous to make claims as if there was some kind of "true" and eternal Rome.
It's totally disingenuous to make claims as if there was some kind of "true" and eternal Rome.