You've raised the price so high we cannot taste it. —Anon.
Philippides. (Book vi. § 17, p. 363.)
It grieves me much to see the world so changed,
And men of worth, ingenious and well-born,
Reduced to poverty, while cunning knaves;
The very scum of the people, eat their fish,
Bought for two oboli, on plates of silver,
Weighing at least a mina; a few capers,
Not worth three pieces of brass-money, served