[546] About 270,000 in 220; Livy ep. xx.
[547] Even with this understanding we shall have to assume for the requisition of 214 a division between 100,000 and 300,000—those rated at 100,000-200,000 asses furnishing two and those at 200,000-300,000 asses three sailors. Otherwise the number of sailors will be greatly in excess of the need.
[548] Similar conditions exist at present in America. The monstrous luxury of the few and the heavy fines recently imposed on the Standard Oil Company do not prove all Americans to be wealthy.
[549] P. 61 f.
[550] Livy i. 43. 9; Cic. Rep. ii. 20. 36; Fest. ep. 81, 221; Gaius iv. 27.
[551] Gaius iv. 27.
[552] Rep. ii. 20. 36.
[553] I. 43. 9.
[554] Cam. 2. This statement is valuable notwithstanding Kubitschek, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. i. 683.
[555] Payment is mentioned by Livy v. 7. 12 (403) but triple pay is first spoken of in ch. 12. 12 (400); cf. Polyb. vi. 39. 12; Fest. 234. 26.