Word: lyth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cursing at usury in English, Latin, and Greek: he calls it commune sepulchrum helandros kai heleptolis kai helarxe (everybody's grave -man-destroying-and city-destroying- and state-destroying). Throughout history Poet Pound sees the same monetary blood-sucking going on, whether in profaned ancient Greek temples, perverted lyth-Century Mounts of Pity (i.e., municipal pawnshops), or stone-faced 20th-century banks...