Hyginus
From LSJ
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Hygīnus: (Higinus, Gell. 1, 14, 1; 1, 21, 2; 5, 8, 1 et saep.), i, m.,
I surname of two Roman authors.
I C. Julius Hyginus, author of a collection of fables and of a treatise on astronomy, Suet. Gramm. 20; Gell. 1, 14.—
II The author of a treatise De limitibus constituendis.
