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Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames?
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Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames?

virgil

— Fell lust of gold! abhorred, accurst!
What will not men to slake such thirst?
Lines 56–57 (translated by John Conington); of Polydorus's murder.Cf. Dryden's translation:
O sacred hunger of pernicious gold!
What bands of faith can impious lucre hold?

Cf. also Symmons' translation:
Dire lust of gold! how mighty thy controll
To bend to crime man's impotence of soul!

Tags: mortalia, cogis, Auri, sacra, fames

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Improbe Amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis!

virgil

— Curst Love! what lengths of tyrant scorn
Wreak'st not on those of woman born?
Line 412 (translated by John Conington); referring to the unwise actions undertaken by Dido, actuated by amorous passion.Cf. Dryden's translation:
All-pow'rful Love! what changes canst thou cause
In human hearts, subjected to thy laws!

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Aurea rumpunt tecta quietem, Vigilesque trahit purpura noctes. O si pateant pectora ditum, Quantos intus sublimis agit Fortuna metus.


— Golden palaces break man's rest, and purple robes cause watchful nights.
— Oh, if the breasts of the rich could be seen into, what terrors high fortune places within!
— Seneca, Hercules Œtæus, 646.

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Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames?


— Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do?
— Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), III. 56.

Tags: mortalia, cogis, Auri, sacra, fames

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O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora cæca!


— How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
— Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, II. 14.

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Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora cæcæ, Noctis habent.


— Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men.
— Ovid, Metamorphoses, VI. 472.

Tags: Pro, superi, quantum, mortalia, cc, habent

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Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames?


— Cf. Dryden's translation:
O sacred hunger of pernicious gold!
What bands of faith can impious lucre hold?

— Cf. also Symmons' translation:
Dire lust of gold! how mighty thy controll
To bend to crime man's impotence of soul!

Tags: mortalia, cogis, Auri, sacra, fames

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Improbe Amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis!


— Cf. Dryden's translation:
All-pow'rful Love! what changes canst thou cause
In human hearts, subjected to thy laws!

Tags: Improbe, Amor, mortalia, cogis

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