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Sibylline Oracles

Book 8, Line 17 by Greek source text (Ancient Greek)

ἀρχὴ πᾶσι κακῶν φιλοχρημοσύνη καὶ ἄνοια.

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Greek text parsed from the Online Critical Pseudepigrapha XML witness, a proofread transcription of J. Geffcken, Die Oracula Sibyllina (GCS 8; Leipzig, 1902), pinned to the public OCP GitHub source.