Statius is glossed as belonging with avarice not because he hoarded, but because wastefulness is treated as the opposite excess that withers into the same vice-structure.
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The opposite excess to avarice; Statius says this was his real fault and why he purges on the fifth terrace.
Statius explains that the fifth terrace punished not avarice but prodigality, its opposite, and that opposite faults can be purged together when one sin is countered by its contrary.
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