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When you are at Rome live in the Roman style: when you are elsewhere live as they live… — St. Ambrose

Letter

When you are at Rome live in the Roman style: when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

In the original Latin

Cum fueris Romae, Romano vivito more, Cum fueris alibi vivito sicut ibi.

St. Ambrose
Quoted in Letter to Casulanus, by St. Augustine · 397
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Saint Ambrose's advice to Saint Augustine.

Provenance
Citation
Saint Ambrose. Quoted in "Letter To Casulanus, From Saint Augustine." c. 396, ch. 32.

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