Of what avail are any laws, where money rules alone,
Where Poverty can never win its cases?
Detractors of the times, who bear the Cynic's scrip, are known
To often sell the truth, and keep their faces!
So Justice is at public auction bought,
The knight gives judgement as Gold says he ought.

-THE SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS ARBITER (www.gutenberg.org/files/5225/5225-h/5225-h.htm)

(И графика там - источник вдохновения Пазолини для "Декамерона")