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A VISIT FROM WEALTH by HIPPONAX

First Line: BUT NEVER CAME THERE PLUTUS, THE BLIND ONE
Last Line: MINAS OF SILVER GIVE I THEE THIRTY.'
Subject(s): WEALTH; RICHES; FORTUNES;

But never came there Plutus, the blind one,
Unto my house, nor spake thus: 'Hipponax,
Minas of silver give I thee thirty.'



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