Corpse-Wealth and the Metropolis of Greed: Some Greek and Latin Sayings about the Wealthy
Some useful words: νεκροφάγος: “corpse-eating” πλουτοκράτωρ: “plutocrat” Martial, Epigram 5.81 “You will always be poor, Aemilianus, if you are poor; nowadays wealth comes to no one but the rich”. …
