(Tacit.Annal.xi.

25.) The family of Scaurus (a branch of the Patrician Aemilii) was degraded so low that his father, who exercised the trade of a charcoal merchant, left him only teu slaves, and somewhat less than three hundred pounds sterling.

(Valerius Maximus, l.iv.c.4, n.11.Aurel.Victor in Scauro.) The family was saved from oblivion by the merit of the son.] [Footnote 96: Tacit.Annal.xi.25.Dion Cassius, l.iii.p.

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The virtues of Agricola, who was created a Patrician by the emperor Vespasian, reflected honor on that ancient order; but his ancestors had not any claim beyond an Equestrian nobility.] [Footnote 97: This failure would have been almost impossible if it were true, as Casaubon compels Aurelius Victor to affirm (ad Sueton, in Caesar v.24.See Hist.

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