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with emeralds and pearls, which shone in alternate layers upon 
her head, in her hair, in her wreaths, in her ears, upon her neck, 
in her bracelets, and on her fingers, and the valne of which 
amounted in all to forty millions of sesterces ; indeed ^ she 
was prepared at once to prove the fact, by showing the receipts 
and acquittances. JS'or were these any presents made by a 
prodigal potentate, but treasures which had descended to her 
from her grandfather, and obtained by the spoliation of the 
provinces. Such are the fruits of plunder and extortion ! It 
was for this reason that M. LoUius was held so infamous all 
over the East for the presents which he extorted from the kings ; 
the result of which was, that he was denied the friendship of 
Caius Caesar, and took poison and all this was done, I say, 
that his grand- daughter might be seen, by the glare of lamps, 
covered all over with jewels to the amount of forty millions 
of sesterces ! E"ow let a person only picture to himself, on 
the one hand, what was the value of the habits worn by 
Curius or Pabricius in their triumphs, let him picture to him- 
self the objects displayed to the public on their triumphal 
litters,^®* and then, on the other hand, let him think upon this 
Lollia, this one bit of a woman, the head of an empire, taking 
her place at table, thus attired ; would he not much rather 
that the conquerors had been torn from their very chariots, 
than that they had conquered for such a result as this ? 
^ 7,600,000 francs, Hardouin says ; wMch woukl make £304,000 of our 
money. 
56 Ipsa confestim parata mancupationem tabulis probare." 
He was propraetor of the province of Galatia, Consul b.c. 21, and 
Tj.c. 16 legatus in Gaul ; where he suffered a defeat from certain of the 
German tribes. He was afterwards appointed by Augustus tutor to his 
grandson, C. Caesar, whom he accompanied to the East in b.c. 2. He was 
a personal enemy of Tiberius, which may in some measure account for the 
had character given him by Velleius Paterculus, who describes him as more 
eager to make money than to act honourably, and as guilty of every kind 
of vice. Horace, on the other hand, in the ode addressed to him, Carm. iv. 
9, expressly praises him for his freedom from all avarice. His son, M. 
Lollius, was the father of Lollia Paulina. 
58 This does not appear to be asserted by any other author ; but Velleius 
Paterculus almost suggests as much, B. ii., Cujus mors intra paucos dies 
fortuita an voluntaria fuerit ignore." It was said that he was in the habit 
of selling the good graces of Caius Ciesar to the Eastern sovereigns for sums 
of money. 
5s* '^Fercula." See vol. i. p. 400, Note 1. 
" XJnam imperii mulierculam accuban tern." 
