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  • Angustatur ex abundantia, contristatur ex opulentia, infelix praesentibus bonis, infelicior in futuris.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • = This is possibly a reference to Herodotus II 53, where Herodotus says that Homer and Hesiod established the Greek pantheon; for Ovid's borrowings from Herodotus, see at iii 37 _opulentia Croesi_ (p 189).

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • London, with its unutterable external hideousness, and with its internal canker of public egestas, privatim opulentia, + -- to use the words which Sallust puts into Cato's mouth about Rome, -- unequalled in the world!

    Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold 1855

  • Whether _opulentia_ is the nominative or ablative, is disputed.

    Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

  • -- _Tamen respublica firma, opulentia neglegentiam tolerabat_.

    Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

  • Sed ea tametsi vos parvi pendebatis, tamen res publica firma erat; opulentia neglegentiam tolerabat. [

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

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