The Gaul who is hired to kill Marius, but is frightened by his eyes, talks bad French mingled with bad English, and calls on Jesus in his horror! [54] Brutus, ca.

xc.
[55] Florus tells us that there were 2000 Senators and Knights, but that any one was allowed to kill just whom he would.

"Quis autem illos potest computare quos in urbe passim quisquis voluit occidit" (lib.iii., ca.
21).
[56] About L487 10_s._ In Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities the Attic talent is given as being worth L243 15_s._ Mommsen quotes the price as 12,000 denarii, which would amount to about the same sum.
[57] Suetonius speaks of his death.

Florus mentions the proscriptions and abdication.

Velleius Paterculus is eloquent in describing the horrors of the massacres and confiscation.