He carried into the treasury, of silver bullion, fourteen thousand pounds' weight; of coined, seventeen thousand and twenty-three denarii;[1] and Oscan[2] denarii, one hundred and twenty thousand four hundred and thirty-eight.[3] The reason for which the senate refused him a triumph was, because he fought under the auspices, and in the province, of another.

He had returned, moreover, two years after the expiration of his office, because after he had resigned the government of the province to Quintus Minucius, he was detained there during the succeeding year, by a severe and tedious sickness he therefore entered the city in ovation, only two months before his successor, Quintus Minucius, enjoyed a triumph.

The latter also brought into the treasury thirty-four thousand eight hundred pounds' weight of silver, seventy-eight thousand denarii,[4] and of Oscan denarii two hundred and seventy-eight thousand.[5] [Footnote 1: 549l.

14s.] [Footnote 2: Osca, now Huesca, was a city in Spain, remarkable for silver mine near it.] [Footnote 3: 659l.11s.

9-1/2d.] [Footnote 4: 2430l.11s.