κρατίστην εἶναι δημοκρατίαν τὴν μήτε πλουσίους ἄγαν μήτε πένητας ἔχουσαν πολίτας → the best democracy is that in which the citizens are neither very rich nor very poor (Thales/Plutarch)
aurĕātus: a, um, adj. aureus,
I adorned, decorated with gold: in castris hederā ter aureatus, Sid. Carm. 9, 396.