If Rome's women were the cause of her downfall, why did the Romans not import women from abroad?
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The paper that you linked to argues that fertility was low due to low sperm count arising from a fondness for too-hot baths.
The importation of women would not be expected to remedy a fertility problem originating on the male side.
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