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Agricola, Book 1, para. 21 (AD 98) [tr. Church and Brodribb] - Tacitus | WIST Quotations
Step by step they were led to things which dispose to vice: the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance they called civilisation, when it was but a part of their servitude. [Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset.] Alt. trans.: "Because they didn't…