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Vendidit hic auro patriam.
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Vendidit hic auro patriam.

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— He sold his country for gold.
Line 621. Cf. Conington's translation:
This to a tyrant master sold
His native land for cursed gold.

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Venenum in auro bibitur.


— Poison is drunk out of gold.
— Seneca, Thyestes, Act III. 453.

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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.

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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.

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