Book 14
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For that reason the eminent Valerius Publicola was buried by a contribution of money,In 503 B.C.; see Livy, ii. 16, 7. and through the aid of her husband’s friendsValerius Maximus, iv. 4, 6, says that it was the senate that came to their aid. the needy wife of Regulus and her children were supported. And the daughter of ScipioCn. Cornelius Scipio, who wrote from Spain in the second Punic war, asking to be recalled, that he might provide a dowry for his daughter; see Valerius Maximus, iv. 4, 10. received her dowry from the public treasury, since the nobles blushed to look upon the beauty of this marriageable maiden long unsought because of the absence of a father of modest means.
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But now-a-days, if as a strangerEnsslin, p. 7 (see Bibliography), refers this to Ammianus; cf. note on 6, 2, above. of good position you enter for the first time to pay your respects to some man who is well-to-doFor bene nummatum, cf. Horace, Epist. i. 6, 38. and therefore puffed up, at first you will be greeted as if you were an eagerly expected friend, and after being asked many questions and forced to lie, you will wonder, since the man never saw you before, that a great personage should pay such marked attention to your humble self as to make you regret, because of such special kindness, that you did not see Rome ten years earlier.
