Word: caius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Please tell me, Caius, why are all these laws necessary to civilization? Why don't people weave cloth and bake bread of their own accord in return for payment...
...Caius answered:] "It is the duty of the government to provide the necessities of life at a price the poor can afford; once you start doing that you have to fix the price of a good many other things as well, and compel people to work at the unpopular trades that lose money...
...years since the Emperor Diocletian's price control edict (301 A.D.), and rigid economic regulation and manpower control had become a way of life in the Roman Empire. To Bureaucrat Caius Sempronius Felix (a fictional but true-to-history creation of British Novelist Alfred Duggan), his wife's question seemed unsophisticated. Felix could concede that controls discouraged production, halted expansion and bred more controls, but he found it unthinkable that society could ever again get along without them...
...dark, wet night A.D. 406, Caius Sempronius Felix, civil governor of Roman Britain, sat shivering all alone in a Hertfordshire bog with only a poor man's cloak against the wind, and wondered how in the world he had come to such a pass. The novelized story of Felix's fall, as told by Britain's Alfred Duggan in The Little Emperors, is the story of the fall of the Roman Empire in Britain...