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Latin Word for Cattle Became a Cash Cow

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In ancient Rome, no one cared how many Teslas, McMansions or Rolexes you owned. Nope; wealth was measured in cattle, cattle, cattle!

(The bovine bourgeoisie was so status conscious that some Romans put bumper stickers on their inferior breeds of cattle reading, "My other cow is a Holstein.")

Thus, it's probably not surprising that the Latin ...Read more

 

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