Note 80 — Chapter XXV
Reading edition
Their laws at one time forbade the working of gold mines altogether, for they held with the Roman poet (aurum inrepertum et sic melius situm) that it does least harm when undiscovered.
Reading edition
Their laws at one time forbade the working of gold mines altogether, for they held with the Roman poet (aurum inrepertum et sic melius situm) that it does least harm when undiscovered.