c. 15.
To each man of the Roman plebs I paid three hundred sesterces in accordance with the last will of my father;[69] and in my own name, when consul for the fifth time, I gave four hundred sesterces from the spoils of the wars;[70] again, moreover, in my tenth consulship I gave from my own estate four hundred sesterces to each man by way of congiarium;[71] and in my eleventh consulship I twelve times made distributions of food, buying grain at my own expense;[72] and in the twelfth year of my tribunitial power I three times gave four hundred sesterces to each man.[73] These my donations have never been made to less than two hundred and fifty thousand men.[74] In my twelfth consulship and the eighteenth year of my tribunitial power I gave to three hundred and twenty thousand of the city plebs sixty denarii apiece.[75] In the colonies of my soldiers, when consul for the fifth time, I gave to each man a thousand sesterces from the spoils; about a hundred and twenty thousand men in the colonies received that triumphal donation.[76] When consul for the thirteenth time I gave sixty denarii to the plebs who were at that time receiving public grain; these men were a little more than two hundred thousand in number.[77] [78]