“Poverty was scorned,
Fruitful of warriors; and from all the world
Came that which ruins nations.”

—  Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , book Pharsalia

Book I, line 165 (tr. Edward Ridley).
Pharsalia

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Fecunda virorum paupertas fugitur totoque accersitur orbe quo gens quaeque perit.

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