His liberality, however, to all ranks of people, was excessive. He made up to
					several senators the estate required by law to qualify them for that dignity;
					relieving likewise such men of consular rank as were poor, with a yearly
					allowance of five hundred thousand sesterces; The sesterce
						being worth about two-pence half-penny of English money, the salary of a
						Roman senator was, in round numbers, five thousand pounds a year; and that
						of a professor, as stated in the succeeding chapter, one thousand pounds.
						From this scale, similar calculations may easily be made of the sums
						occurring in Suetonius's statements from time to time. There appears to be
						some mistake in the sum stated in c. xvi. just before, as the amount seems
						fabulous, whether it represented the floating debt, or the annual revenue,
						of the empire. and rebuilt, in a better manner than before, several
					cities in different parts of the empire, which had been damaged by earthquakes
					or fires.