“And can you, then, who have got such possessions and so many of them, covet our poor huts?”

—  Caratacus

Cassius Dio Roman History Bk. LXI, ch. 33, sect. 3c; translation from John Creighton Coins and Power in Late Iron Age Britain (Cambridge: CUP, 2000) p. 92.
Said after having seen Rome for the first time.

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Ειτα ταυτα και τα τοιαυτα κεκτημένοι των σκηνιδίων ημων επιθυμειτε.

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