Ῥίζα γὰρ πάντων τῶν κακῶν ἐστιν ἡ φιλαργυρία → Root of all the evils is the love of money (Radix omnium malorum est cupiditas)
cŏlubrĭfer: fĕra, fĕrum, adj. coluberfero,
I serpent-bearing, an epithet of Medusa (cf. coluber and colubra): monstrum, Ov. M. 5, 241: collum, Luc. 9, 677.