26 ACCUMULATION IN 



CHAP. I. 



sessed ter millies 1 . Pallas, the freedman of 

 Claudius, an equal sum. Lentulus, the augur, 

 quater millies". C. C. Claudius Isidorus, al- 

 though he had lost a great part of his fortune in 

 the civil wars, left by his will four thousand one 

 hundred and sixteen slaves, three thousand six 

 hundred yoke of oxen, two hundred and fifty- 

 seven thousand head of other cattle, and in 

 ready money US. sexcenties*. 



The emperors were possessed of wealth in a 

 proportion commensurate with their superior 

 rank and power. Augustus obtained, by the tes- 

 tamentary dispositions of his friends, quater decies 

 millies 4 '. Tiberius left at his death vigesies ac 

 septies millies 5 , which Caligula lavished away in 

 a single year. 



The expenses of the government, and the 

 debts and credits of the most eminent indivi- 

 duals, seem to have been on the same colossal 

 scale. Vespasian, at his accession, estimated 

 the money which the maintenance of the com- 

 monwealth required at three hundred and 

 twenty-two millions nine hundred sixteen thou- 

 sand six hundred and sixty pounds. 



one occasion he gave an entertainment to the populace, who 

 were seated at ten thousand tables, and at another time gave 

 them a supply of bread-corn for three months. Plutarch, 

 Life of M. Crassus. 



1 ,2,421,875 sterling. 2 3,229,166 sterling. 



* ,484,375 sterling. * ^32,291,666 sterling. 



5 ^21,796,875 sterling. 



