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Book cover for The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean: The Ancient World Economy & the Kingdoms of Africa, Arabia & India
‘it was shown on written tablets that the new taxes Pompey added to the State came to 50 million denarii and the Republic now received revenues of 85 million denarii’.38 This meant that Pompey had increased the Roman revenues from 200 ...more
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No, Pompey *added* 50 million denarii. The old budget would be 35 million denarii, or 140 million sesterces per annum. Pompey is claiming to have more than doubled the Republic's income, likely by severely exaggerating the likely income, and also low-balling the current budget to boot.
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Epictetus
“If someone tried to take control of your body and make you a slave, you would fight for freedom. Yet how easily you hand over your mind to anyone who insults you. When you dwell on their words and let them dominate your thoughts, you make them your master.”
Epictetus, The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life

T. Kingfisher
“(Potatoes were, for some reason, more prone to fits of random magic than most vegetables. It would take a remarkable magic to affect turnips or kale. No one bothered planting eggplants—they would run into the woods or fly away on leafy kites the instant your back was turned.)”
T. Kingfisher, The Seventh Bride

Ann Leckie
“It seems very straightforward when I say “I.” At the time, “I” meant Justice of Toren, the whole ship and all its ancillaries. A unit might be very focused on what it was doing at that particular moment, but it was no more apart from “me” than my hand is while it’s engaged in a task that doesn’t require my full attention. Nearly twenty years later “I” would be a single body, a single brain. That division, I–Justice of Toren and I–One Esk, was not, I have come to think, a sudden split, not an instant before which “I” was one and after which “I” was “we.” It was something that had always been possible, always potential. Guarded against. But how did it go from potential to real, incontrovertible, irrevocable? On one level the answer is simple—it happened when all of Justice of Toren but me was destroyed. But when I look closer I seem to see cracks everywhere. Did the singing contribute, the thing that made One Esk different from all other units on the ship, indeed in the fleets? Perhaps. Or is anyone’s identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction? I don’t know the answer. But I do know that, though I can see hints of the potential split going back a thousand years or more, that’s only hindsight. The first I noticed even the bare possibility that I–Justice of Toren might not also be I–One Esk, was that moment that Justice of Toren edited One Esk’s memory of the slaughter in the temple of Ikkt. The moment I—“I”—was surprised by it.”
Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice

Ursula Vernon
“Is your mom afraid something will happen to you?”
“I,” said Harriet, with absolute confidence, “am something that happens to OTHER people.”
Ursula Vernon, Whiskerella

Diana Wynne Jones
“It was time for a strong-minded woman to take charge. Abdullah was quite glad that Sophie was one.”
Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air
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