1. Alas, we’re so consumed with greed.
    We take more toothpicks than we need.

    Epigramma Alexandri Papae quod in sermonem Latinum conversum anomaliam numerorum vetustiorum conservat.

    You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come:
    Knock as you please, there’s no body at home. (Pope)

    Hoc sale* vocis tu bene speras vertice tuso;
    large percutias: haec domus est vacua.

    *Ennius apud Gellium 2.26.21:

    Fecistique ut intellegerem verba illa ex Annali quarto decimo Enni amoenissima…

    Verrunt extemplo placide mare marmore flavo;
    Caeruleum spumat sale conferta rate pulsum.

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