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Everybody would like to see their neighbors move away and leave more room, but nobody wants to move himself. Columbus sold a promise of something that had an already-established value, that could be sold in every town and village that had a merchandising system already set up! I'm going to offer just such a marketable commodity.
It was not to be a mere fort in the enemy's country, like the already-established Aquae Sextiae, but a true colonia of Roman citizens, the creation of which was certain to lead to excessive complications in the foreign policy which dealt with the frontiers of the north.
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