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Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.

Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.

That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.

What is the city but the people?

He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]