To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed craving for gold!

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Poem · Epic poem

To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed craving for gold!

In the original Latin

Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, auri sacra fames!

Virgil

Aeneid · 19 BC

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Greed Human nature

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Epic poem

Medium

Poem

Time

19 BC Classical antiquity

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Virgil

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Current citation

Virgil. The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2010, bk. 3.

Original citation

Virgil. Aenē̆is [Aeneid]. 19 BC, bk. 3.

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