The covetous man is ever in want. t. HORACE-Epistolæ. 1. 2. 56. Quicquid servatur, cupimus magis: ipsaque furem

Cura vocat. Pauci, quod sinit alter, amant.

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

u. OVID-Amorum. III. 4. 25. Amittit merito proprium qui alienum appetit. He deservedly loses his own property, who covets that of another.

v. PHEDRUS-Fabulæ. I. 4. 1. Verum est aviditas dives, et pauper pudor. True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

W. PHEDRUS-Fabulæ. II. 1. 12.