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[6] When this man, in his praetorship, gave magnificent games and made very rich largesses, being unable to endure [p. 17] the blustering of the commons, who often urged that many things should be given to those who were unworthy of them, 1 in order to show his generosity and his contempt of the mob, he summoned some beggars from the Vatican 2 and presented them with valuable gifts.

1 Such as mimes, actors, and charioteers; cf. xiv. 6, 14.

2 The Vatican hill, where there was an Apostles' Church before whose doors the people begged for alms.

Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.

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