What attracts you to Late Rome?

[Timianus]

I find it a strange argument that a belief system which is statedly pacifistic was one of the driving forces of cohesion in an empire born of and and either implicitly or explicitly ruled by warfare.

Indeed, but it is equally as strange as to how Constantine turned the Christ movement into a "religion of victory" and used it to motivate his troops. Christ essentially replaced Sol Invictus. I understand his motivations for doing this; but I never understood how he "sold" this to his army.....unless it was the promise of eternal life?