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Tacitus, The Histories, Volumes I and II

Note 95 — BOOK I

W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Fyfe translation

According to Suetonius he used to kiss the soldiers he met in the road; make friends with ostlers and travellers at wayside inns; and go about in the morning asking everybody 'Have you had breakfast yet?' demonstrating by his hiccoughs that he had done so himself.

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