“Blepsidemus: There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!”

— Aristophanés, Plutus

tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Pl.+362 <br class="br">Plutus, line 362-363 <br class="br">Plutus (388 BC)

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