si Babylonos opes, Lydae si pondera gazae Indorumque dares Serumque Arabumque potentes divitias, mallet cum paupertate pudica intemerata mori vitamque rependere famae.
Had she been offered the wealth of Babylon, the weight of Lydian treasure, the potent riches of Indians and Seres and Arabians, she would rather have died inviolate in chaste poverty, paying life for reputation.
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