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To one of his friends he ordered that two hundred and fifty thousand drachmas should be given (a sum which the Romans call
‘
decies
’
1). His steward was amazed, and in order to show Antony the magnitude of the sum, deposited the money in full view. Antony, passing by, asked what that was; and when his steward told him it was the gift which he had ordered, he divined the man's malice and said:
‘I thought the decies was more; this is a trifle; therefore add as much more to it.’
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