“I am a Roman citizen.”

—  Marcus Tullius Cicero

Against Verres [In Verrem], part 2, book 5, section 57; reported in Cicero, The Verrine Orations, trans. L. H. G. Greenwood (1935), vol. 2, p. 629

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