The Corpus Conundrum Quotes

“If the man’s claim was true, we owed him a degree of civility. Alexandrians guard their citizenship jealously. It’s difficult to obtain except by birth. We Romans, on the other hand, like whores, give ours to any man who will meet our price.”
― Albert A. Bell Jr., The Corpus Conundrum: A Third Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger