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    4 days ago

    Not only that, but in the original Greek “love of money” is all one word: φιλαργυρία (philarghyría) or silver-love; ‘silver’ being more or less synonymous with the currency made from it and wealth in general.

    It is very much the in the spirit of how you might decribe a dragon as ‘gold-hungry’ instead of just ‘greedy’.