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Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames?
Fell lust of gold! abhorred, accurst!
What will not men to slake such thirst?
— Virgil, Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book III, lines 56-57 (translated by John Conington).
Tags: Auri, cogis, fames, mortalia, pectora, sacra
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