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Vendidit hic auro patriam.
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Vendidit hic auro patriam.
virgil— He sold his country for gold.Line 621. Cf. Conington's translation:
- This to a tyrant master sold
His native land for cursed gold.
Venenum in auro bibitur.
— Poison is drunk out of gold.
— Seneca, Thyestes, Act III. 453.
auro pulsa fides, auro venalia jura, Aurum lex sequitur, mox sine lege pudor.
— By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.
— Propertius, Elegice, III. 13. 48.
Aurea nunc vere sunt specula; plurimus auro Venit honos; auro conciliatur amor.
— Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.
— Ovid, Ars Amatoria, Book II. 277.
