I hate poor people. If anyone wants something for nothing, he's a fool. Let him pay up and he'll get it.See Rudolf Wachter, Pompejanische Wandinschriften (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019), p. 332.
abomino paupero(s). quisqui(s) quid gratis rogat, fat(u)us est. aes det et accipiat rem.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum IV 9839b (Pompeii; tr. Ramsay MacMullen):