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7. Cneius Manlius carried in the triumph two hundred golden crowns of twelve pounds' weight; two hundred and twenty thousand pounds' weight of silver; two thousand two hundred and three of gold; one hundred and twenty-seven thousand Attic tetradrachms;1 two hundred and fifty thousand cistophoruses; 2 sixteen thousand three hundred and twenty golden Philippeans; 3 together with abundance of Gallic arms and spoils [2] in chariots. Fifty-two generals of the enemy were led before his car. He distributed to each of his soldiers forty-two denariuses,4 and double that sum to a centurion; to the foot-sol- diers double pay, to the horsemen triple. Great numbers of all ranks, whom he had distinguished by gifts, [3] accompanied him. The verses thrown out by the soldiers were of such a kind, that it was quite evident that they were sung to a commander who had been indulgent to them, and courted their affections. It was indeed evident that the triumph was celebrated with a greater degree of favour by the troops, than by [4] the citizens. The friends of Manlius, however, were able to acquire for him the regard of the [5] people also; through whose efforts a decree of the senate was passed, ordering, that “such part of the soldiers' pay, contributed to the public funds by the people, as was not yet repaid, should be discharged out of that which had been carried in the procession to the treasury.” Accordingly the city praetors, with care and fidelity, paid twenty-five denariuses and a half5 instead of each [6] thousand asses.6 About this time two military tribunes arrived from the two Spains with letters from Caius Atinius and Lucius Manlius, who governed [7] those provinces. From these letters it appeared, that the Celtiberians and Lusitanians were in arms, and ravaging the territories of the allies; the senate, however, deferred all consideration of that business until the new magistrates should come into office. This year, during the celebration of the Roman games which Publius Cornelius Cethegus and Aulus Postumius Albinus exhibited, a pole in the circus, being loosely set in the ground, fell on the statue of Pollentia, and [p. 1799]threw [8] it down. The senate moved by such a religious circumstance, voted that one day should be added to the celebration [9??] of the games, that two statues should be set up instead of the one, and that one of them, a new statue, should [10] be gilded. The plebeian games were likewise repeated for one day, by the aediles Caius Sempronius Blaesus and Marcus Furius Luscus.

1 16,404l. 3s. 4d.

2 4309l. 14s. 9d.

3 1054l.

4 1l. 6s. 3d.

5 6s. 5d.

6 3l. 4s. 7d.

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