<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div xml:lang="eng" type="translation" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi1348.abo020.perseus-eng2"><div type="textpart" n="19" subtype="chapter"><p>In the games celebrated when the stage-scenery of the theatre of Marcellus<note anchored="true">See Augustus, c. xxix</note> was repaired, restred the old
					musical entertainments. He gave Apollinaris, the tragedian, four hundred
					thousand sesterces, and to Terpinus and Diodorus, the harpers, two hundred
					thousand; to some a hundred thousand; and the least he gave to any of the
					performers was forty thousand, besides many golden crowns. He entertained
					company constantly at his table, and often in great state and very sumptuously,
					in order to promote trafde. As in the Saturnalia he made presents to the men
					which they were to carry away with them, so did he to the women upon the calends
					of March;<note anchored="true">At the men's Saturnalia, a feast held in December
						attended with much revelling, the masters waited upon their slaves; and at
						the women's Saturnalia, held on the first of March, the women served their
						female attendants, by whom also they sent presents to their friends. </note>
					notwithstanding which, he could not wipe off the disrepute of his former
					stinginess. The Alexandrians called him constantly Cybiosactes; a name wich had
					been. to one of their kings who was sordidly avaricious. Nay, at his funeral,
					Favo, the principal mimic, personating him, and imitating, as actors do, both
					his manner of speaking and his gestures, asked aloud of the procurators, "how'
					much his funeral and the procession would cost?" And being answered "ten
					millions of sesterces," he cried out, "give him but a hundred thousand
					sesterces, and they might throw his body into the Tiber, if they would."</p></div></div></body></text></TEI>