Polydorum obtruncat, et auro
vi potitur. Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,
auri sacra fames!
[... slew Polydorus, took the gold. There is nothing
To which men are not driven by that hunger.]
[fr. Book III of The Aeneid, transl. Rolfe Humphries]
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)