RICHES OF THE ANCIENTS.
CLASSIC MILLIONAIRES. In landed property Croesus possersed a fortune equal to £1,700,000 besides a large amount of money, slaves and furniture, which amounted to an equal sum. The philosopher Seneca . nad a fortune of £3,500,000. ruch a sum anyone can afford to be philosophical. Tiber'us left £23,625,000, wh ch Vespasian, on ascending the throne, estimated ail the es of the State at £35,000,000. The debts of Milo amounted to £600,060. Caesar, before he entered upon any office owed £2,995 000. He had purchased the friendship of Curio for £500,000, and that' of Lucius Paulus for £300,000. He squandered £147,000,000 of the public treasures. Appius wasted in debauchery £500,000, and find'ng on examination of the state of his affairs that he had only £BO,OOO, he poisoned himself because he considered that sum insufficient for his maintenance. Julius Caesar gave ( Servilla, the mother of Brutus, a pearl of the value of £40,000. Cleopatra, at an entertainment, gave to Anbony, dissolved in vinegar, a pearl worth £40,000, and he swallowed it. Clodius, the son of Esopus the comedian, swallowed another pearl worth £BO,OOO.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 297, 18 July 1929, Page 2
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