The day-dream of Gripus, after finding his treasure, might almost be taken as a humorous comment on the various motives of curiosity and mercantile enterprise by which he himself was prompted to become engaged in maritime speculation:- Navibus magnis mercaturam faciam: aput Reges rex perhibebor.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
6, 5, unde Reges ejusdem gentis praetumidi appellari se patiuntur Solis fratres et Lunae.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
Take the example of Tacitus, who begins his history of Rome by these words: 'Urbem Roman a principio Reges habuere'.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt