The supper of Lucullus rarely cost him less than thirty thousand francs, and he could entertain five and twenty thousand guests.

Six citizens of Rome possessed a great part of Africa.

Domitius had an estate in France of eighty thousand acres." "Poor fellow!" "When Nero went to Baize he was accompanied by a thousand chariots and two thousand mules caparisoned with silver.

Poppaea followed him with five hundred she asses to furnish milk for her bath.

Cicero purchased a dining-room table that cost him a million sesterces, or about two hundred thousand francs.