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198 BC (search for this): book 33, chapter 50
nd Q. Æmilius Rufus, for being in possession of a certain quantity of silver plate. This story is also referred to in B. xviii. c. 8, where ten pounds is the quantity mentioned. a man, too, who had enjoyed a triumph, should have incurred the notice of the censor for being in possession of five pounds' weight of silver, it is a thing that would appear quite fabulous at the present day.This is said ironically. The same, too, with the instance of Catus Ælius,Sextus Ælius Pœtus Catus, Consul B.C. 198. who, when consul, after being found by the Ætolian ambassadors taking his morning meal"Prandentem." off of common earthenware, refused to receive the silver vessels which they sent him; and, indeed, was never in possession, to the last day of his life, of any silver at all, with the exception of two drinking-cups, which had been presented to him as the reward of his valour, by L. Paulus,L. Paulus Æmilius. his father-in-law, on the conquest of King Perseus. We read, too, that the Carthaginian<