172 WEALTH OF INDIVIDUALS. CHAP. vn. 



into Rome from the conquered and plundered 

 territories, the amount of tributes extorted from 

 the provinces as long as their powers of furnish- 

 ing them remained, and the vast sums which 

 the taxes we have noticed must have heaped to- 

 gether in the metropolis, we shall find less dif- 

 ficulty in giving credit to what is related of the 

 money collected, expended, and bequeathed, in 

 the age of Augustus, and even up to the time 

 of Constantine. Several of these large sums have 

 been already noticed ; to which may be added, 

 that Augustus received in various legacies from 

 deceased friends, according to the recital of 

 Suetonius, 32,291, 666 sterling; that Cicero re- 

 ceived as presents from his clients and admirers 

 170,000 ; and a private person, distinguished 

 by nothing but his wealth, Caius Caecilius Isio- 

 dorus, who died a few years before Augustus, 

 though he had lost a large part of his property 

 in the civil war, left behind him 4116 slaves, 

 3600 yoke of oxen, 230,057 head of other cattle, 

 and a sum of coin equal to near three millions of 

 our money 1 . 



Without, however, noticing farther the actual 

 quantity of the precious metals which was col- 

 lected together in Rome, and from thence dis- 

 persed and again collected through the several 

 provinces ; it is proper to advance to the subject 



1 Pliny, book xxxiii. c. 10. 



