Carmina

Mentula has something like thirty acres of meadow land, forty under cultivation: the rest are as the sea. Why can he not surpass Croesus in wealth, he who in one estate possesses so much? Meadow, arable land, immense woods, and open fields and marshes, even to the uttermost north and to the Ocean sea! All things great are here, yet is the owner most great beyond all; not a man, but in truth a mentule mighty, menacing!