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Midae uero, cuius imperio Phrygia fuit subiecta, puero dormienti formicae in os grana tritici congesserunt. parentibus deinde eius corsus prodigium tenderet explorantibus augures responderunt omnium illum mortalium futurum ditissimum. nec uana praedictio extitit: nam Midas cunctorum paene regum opes abundantia pecuniae antecessit infantiaeque incunabula uili deorum munere donata onustis auro atque argento gazis pensauit.

Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.

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