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Another comes down to you from his
palace on the Palatine; he has for the purposes
of relaxation to his mind a pleasant suburban villa, and many farms besides, and not one
which is not beautiful and contiguous; a house filled with Corinthian and Delian
vessels, among which is that celebrated stove which he has lately bought at so great a
price, that passers by, who heard the money being counted out, thought that a farm was
being sold. What quantities besides of embossed plate, of embroidered quilts; of
paintings, of statues, and of marble, do you think he has in his house? All, forsooth,
that in a time of disturbance and rapine can be crammed into one house from the plunder
of many magnificent families. But why should I mention how vast a household too was his,
and in what various trades was it instructed?
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