auri sacra fames Phrase
Meaning:
accursed hunger for gold
Comment
From Virgil, Aeneid, Book 3, 57. Later quoted by Seneca as quod non mortalia pectora coges, auri sacra fames ("what do not you force mortal hearts [to do], accursed hunger for gold").
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