Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, Liber Tertius, IX, section 7

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[7] Eadem sententia est illius quoque veteris proverbii, quod ita dictum accepimus: “aurum Tolosanum.” Nam cum oppidum Tolosanum in terra Gallia ¹ Quintus Caepio consul diripuisset multumque auri in eius oppidi templis fuisset, quisquis ex ea direptione aurum attigit misero cruciabilique exitu periit.

1 Gallia, Erasmus; Italia, RV.; Italica, P.

The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1927.

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