“If you are at Rome, live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere, live as they live there.”

— Ambrose

Quoted in Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience (1660) by Jeremy Taylor, I.i.5; commonly rendered into a proverb: "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", or simply "When in Rome..."

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Si fueris Romae, Romano vivito more; Si fueris alibi, vivito sicut ibi.

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bishop of Milan; one of the four original doctors of the Ch… 339–397

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