Often, when he was asked why he had returned, he quoted Tacitus: Then, besides the dangers of a boisterous and unknown sea, who would relinquish Asia, Africa, or Italy, for Germany, a land rude in its surface, rigorous in its climate, cheerless to every beholder and cultivator, except a native? Those who heard him nodded and smiled and commented among themselves: Bubis is one of us. Bubis hasn’t forgotten us. Bubis bears us no grudge. Some patted him on the back and understood nothing. Others assumed stricken expressions and said what truth there was in the Roman’s words. A great man, Tacitus,
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