"1 Kalki 23:10, 22 September 2009 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 17:08, 21 September 2007 (UTC) and would prefer "brick" to "bricks". I had originally ranked this higher, but it seems to be a common paraphrase of a statement by Suetonius, that "He could boast that he inherited it brick and left it marble" which suggests that though Augustus might have used such words, Seutonius is not necessarily quoting him."
January 1, 1970
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