“You will always be poor, Aemilianus, if you are poor;
nowadays wealth comes to no one but the rich”.
semper pauper eris, si pauper es, Aemiliane;
dantur opes nullis nunc nisi divitibus.
Tag: Invective
Archilochus fr. 307
Archilochus, Fragment 15
Glaukos is a dear ally until he starts fighting
Γλαῦκ’, ἐπίκουρος ἀνὴρ τόσσον φίλος ἔσκε μάχηται,
Archilochus, a master of the ancient art of insults!