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[5] Again, being appointed curator of the Appian Way, he expended upon it vast sums of his own money; and again, during his aedileship,1 he furnished three hundred and twenty pairs of gladiators, and by lavish provision besides for theatrical performances, processions, and public banquets, he washed away all memory of the ambitious efforts of his predecessors in the office. By these means he put the people in such a humour that every man of them was seeking out new offices and new honours with which to requite him.

1 In 66 B.C.

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