I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. — Caesar Augustus
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
In the original Latin
gloriatus marmoream se relinquere, quam latericiam accepisset.
Quoted in Lives of the Caesars, by Suetonius · 121
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Augustus, Caesar. Quoted in The Lives of the Caesars, written by Suetonius, translated by Catharine Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Augustus, Caesar. Quoted in De vita Caesarum [About the Life of the Caesars], written by Suetonius. c. 121.
