Tuesday, April 02, 2024
Greed
Aetna 270-273 (tr. J. Wight Duff and Arnold M. Duff):
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Trivial motives torture men's minds and bodies—
to have their barns overflowing, their wine-casks swelling with must,
and their haylofts rising higher, charged with the full reapings of the field.
So do ye tread the path of greed where sight reveals aught more precious.
leves cruciant animos et corpora causae
horrea uti saturent, tumeant et dolia musto,
plenaque desecto surgant faenilia campo:
sic avidi semper, qua visum est carius, itis.
273 avidi codd.: avidis Matthiae
itis Ellis: istis vel ipsis codd.
