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|previous= [[The Odes/Book II/1|Book II, 1: To Pollio, Writing His History of the Civil Wars]]
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|section= Book II, 2: Money
|section= Book II, 2: Money
|notes= Translated by [[A. S. Kline]] - <small><span class="plainlinks">[http://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Carmina_(Horatius)_II,_II Latin original text]</span> - [[fr.ws: Ode II.2 - À Sallustius Crispus|French Ulysse de Séguier's translation]]</small>
|notes= <small><span class="plainlinks">[http://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Carmina_(Horatius)_II,_II Latin original text]</span> - [[fr.ws: Ode II.2 - À Sallustius Crispus|French Ulysse de Séguier's translation]]</small>
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{{poem-on| Money}}<poem>
Crispus, silver concealed in the greedy earth
has no colour, and you are an enemy
to all such metal unless, indeed, it gleams
from sensible use.
Proculeius will be famous in distant
ages for his generous feelings towards
his brothers: enduring fame will carry him
on its tireless wings.
You may rule a wider kingdom by taming
a greedy spirit, than by joining Spain
to far-off Libya, while Carthaginians
on both sides, serve one.
A fatal dropsy grows worse with indulgence,
the patient can’t rid himself of thirst unless
his veins are free of illness, and his pale flesh
of watery languor.
Though Phraates is back on the Armenian
throne, Virtue, differing from the rabble, excludes
him from the blessed, and instructs the people
not to misuse words,
instead conferring power, and security
of rule, and lasting laurels, on him alone
who can pass by enormous piles of treasure
without looking back.


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