Romans and Aliens Quotes

“There were many categories of Romans in any province. Exiles apart (on whom, see p.102), there were men in private life, traders, business-men, farmers, money-lenders, bankers. [...] There were individual Roman businessmen and traders who settled down and made a new home for themselves in the provinces and, indeed, sometimes outside the imperial frontier. 'If it is a wretched thing to be away from your country,' Cicero wrote, 'the provinces are full of unhappy wretches, only a few of whom ever return to Rome', and Tacitus, writing in the convention, described such people (in Bohemia) as first involved in business dealings, then obsessed by avarice, and finally no longer conscious of being Romans - going native, in fact.”
― John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon, Romans and Aliens