In Astérix comic books; what the proverb-spouting pirate utters as their ship sinks, after yet another encounter with Astérix and Obélix in the album Asterix and Cleopatra.


Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,
Auri sacra fames!

To what do you not drive human hearts,
Cursed craving for gold!

Virgil, The Aeneid - Book III, Line 56

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