“For what is idly got is idly spent.”

— Plautus , Poenulus

Poenulus, Act IV, sc. 2, line 22
Poenulus (The Little Carthaginian)

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Male partum, male disperit.

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Roman comic playwright of the Old Latin period -254–-184 BC

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