"Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle in ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chain of incense burners. Migration makes new citizens of Rome."

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Source : Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1983). “Seek the House of Relatives”

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

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