Note 181 — Chapter VII
Reading edition
In the first line of the above citation, which is from the Epistolarum ex Ponto, book i, epistle 3 (to Rufinus) read “littore” in place of “frigore.” The translation of the two lines is as follows: “What is better than Rome? What is worse than the Scythian shore? Yet the barbarian flees thither from that city.”