Well, that makes sense.
“Carthago delenda waaaaaaaaaaaaaroaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabahbahbahba!”
Actually, you could read the whole early “history” of Rome as a back and forth struggle between the Brujah and the Ventrue. The city of Rome was legendarily founded by escaping refugees from Troy, which was an obviously Ventrue operation since it was a monarchy. The city is founded, and the early kings rule the day, the Ventrue rule the night. The Brujah sloooowly try to shift the city to a republican form of government, first weakening the monarchy by elevating the patricians, then eventually lifting the plebs to share power with the tribunes and such as watchdogs. Then the Ventrue strike back, sending one of their own into Gaul to find a certain very popular general and whisper some things in his ear. But they know that their man can’t just grab power…he has to court it while appearing to reject it. Very Ventrue…Machiavellian millennia before Machiavelli. The Brujah overreact and their pet institution, the Senate, murders this (very popular, I remind you) general. As a result, the general’s nephew and adopted son becomes the first emperor. And the Ventrue own Rome for several hundred years, until the Brujah/Gangrel alliance from the north tears the city apart, starting their own back and forth as several of the barbarian pawns become emperor themselves. The Ventrue evacuate and move east to Constantinople, and eventually the Gangrel-led barbarians end the empire completely.