Aeneid 8.364–365

Evander welcoming Aeneas into his humble house

Aude, hospes, contemnere opes et te quoque dignum

finge deo rebusque veni non asper egenis.

Dare, my guest, to scorn wealth, and make yourself worthy

of the god as well. Come in with no disdain for our poverty.

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