"Haec ornamenta mea."
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Cornelia, as quoted by Valerius Maximus, iv, 4; cp. Ogden Nash, "Columbus", The Face is Familiar (1940), l. 20: "And she said, Here are my jewels, and she wasn’t penurious like Cornelia the mother of the Gracchi, she wasn’t referring to her children, no, she was referring to her jewels, which were very very valuable."
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