Philippus omnia castella expugnari posse dicebat, in quae modo asellus onustus auro posset ascendere.

-- M. Tulli Ciceronis Epistula ad Atticum I, 16

Philip (King of Macedon, Alexander the Great's father) maintained that every stronghold could be caught, as long as a donkey burdened with gold could climb up there.

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Additus a. d. XVII Kal. Oct., MMDCCLXXVI a. U. c.