M.D.Tillemont supposes, strangely enough, that it was part of Agamemnon's inheritance.Mem.Eccles.tom.xii.

p.
85.] [Footnote 29: Seneca, Epist.lxxxix.His language is of the declamatory kind: but declamation could scarcely exaggerate the avarice and luxury of the Romans.

The philosopher himself deserved some share of the reproach, if it be true that his rigorous exaction of Quadringenties, above three hundred thousand pounds which he had lent at high interest, provoked a rebellion in Britain, (Dion Cassius, l.lxii.p.

1003.) According to the conjecture of Gale (Antoninus's Itinerary in Britain, p.

92,) the same Faustinus possessed an estate near Bury, in Suffolk and another in the kingdom of Naples.] [Footnote 30: Volusius, a wealthy senator, (Tacit.Annal.iii.