Brewer's: Cheap as a Sardinian

A Roman phrase referring to the great crowds of Sardinian prisoners brought to Rome by Tiberius Gracchus, and offered for sale at almost any price.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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