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6. iam consularium comitiorum appetebat tempus; quibus quia M. Aemilius, cuius sortis ea cura [p. 234] erat, occurrere non potuit, C. Flaminius Romam1 venit. ab eo creati2 consules Sp. Postumius Albinus Q. Marcius Philippus. [2] praetores inde facti T. Maenius P. Cornelius Sulla C. Calpurnius Piso M. Licinius Lucullus C. Aurelius Scaurus L. Quinctius Crispinus.

[3] extremo anni, magistratibus iam creatis, ante diem tertium nonas Martias Cn. Manlius Volso de Gallis qui Asiam incolunt triumphavit. [4] serius ei triumphandi causa fuit, ne Q. Terentio Culleone praetore causam lege Petillia diceret et incendio alieni iudicii quo L. Scipio damnatus erat conflagraret, [5?] eo infensioribus in se quam in illum iudicibus quod disciplinam militarem severe ab eo conservatam successorem ipsum omni genere licentiae corrupisse fama attulerat. [6] neque ea sola infamiae erant, quae in provincia procul ab oculis facta narrabantur, sed ea etiam magis quae in militibus eius cotidie aspiciebantur. [7] luxuriae enim peregrinae origo ab exercitu Asiatico invecta in urbem est. ii primum3 lectos aeratos, vestem stragulam pretiosam, plagulas et alia textilia, et quae tum magnificae supellectilis habebantur, monopodia et abacos Romam advexerunt. [p. 236] [8] tunc psaltriae sambucistriaeque et convivalia alia4 ludorum oblectamenta addita epulis; epulae quoque ipsae et cura et sumptu maiore apparari coeptae. [9] tum coquus, vilissimum antiquis mancipium et aestimatione et usu, in pretio esse, et quod ministerium fuerat, ars haberi coepta. vix tamen illa, quae tum conspiciebantur, semina erant futurae luxuriae.

1 A.U.C. 567

2 creati ς: decreti M.

3 ii primum Gelenius: inde primum ς.

4 A.U.C. 567

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