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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5246743, member: 110504&quot;]With props to [USER=111387]@Herodotus[/USER] for outtyping you (been there), I had to find that famous quotation of Diocletian from Split.&nbsp; ...To my horror, I don&#039;t even have an abridged Gibbon anymore, so it took lifting it from Wiki (citing Aurelius Victor):</p><p>At Carnuntum people begged Diocletian to return to the throne, to resolve the conflicts that had arisen through Constantine&#039;s rise to power and Maxentius&#039;s usurpation.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocletian#cite_note-207" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocletian#cite_note-207" rel="nofollow">[198]</a> Diocletian&#039;s reply: &quot;If you could show the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbage" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbage" rel="nofollow">cabbage</a> that I planted with my own hands to your emperor, he definitely wouldn&#039;t dare suggest that I replace the peace and happiness of this place with the storms of a never-satisfied greed.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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