Dire lust of gold! how mighty thy controll
To bend to crime man's impotence of soul!


Book III, lines 74–75 - The Æneis (1817)


Dire lust of gold! how mighty thy controll To bend to crime man's impotence of soul!

Dire lust of gold! how mighty thy controll To bend to crime man's impotence of soul!

Dire lust of gold! how mighty thy controll To bend to crime man's impotence of soul!

Dire lust of gold! how mighty thy controll To bend to crime man's impotence of soul!