Excerpt from Caesar: A Dramatic Study First Cit. Yes, you say right, neighbor - these are terrible times! Half the people in rags; and thousands living in cellars. Sec. Cit. And yet there's plenty of money; that is, for the nobles. They fling their silver about, as if it were copper or brass. First Cit. It's just as bad in the country, too. No man can live any more by honest labor in Italy. He has to sell his little farm, and join the rest of us beggars in the towns. Sec. Cit. Oh, that's because the great nobles with their gangs of slaves can undersell them. N 0 free man will come down to a slave's long hours, and a slave's mean food, till he is absolutely forced to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.