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 STRATAGEMS, IV. iii. 11-15

We read that Masinissa, wlien in his ninetieth year, used to eat at noon, standing or walking about in front of his tent.'^

When, in honour of his defeat of the Sabines, the Senate offered Manius Curius a larger amount of ground than the discharged troops were receiving, he was content with the allotment of ordinary soldiers, declaring that that man was a bad citizen who was not satisfied with wliat the rest received. ^

The restraint of an entire army was also often note- worthy, as for example of the troops which served under Marcus Scaurus. For Scaurus has left it on record that a tree laden with fruit, at the far end of the fortified enclosure of the camp, was found, the day after the withdrawal of the army, with the fruit undisturbed.^

In the war waged under the auspices of the Emperor Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus and begun by Julius Civilis in Gaul, the very wealthy city of the Lingones, which had revolted to Civilis, feared that it would be plundered by the approach- ing army of Caesar. But when, contrary to ex- pectation, the inhabitants remained unharmed and lost none of their property, they returned to their loyalty, and handed over to me seventy thousand armed men.*

After the capture of Corinth, Lucius Mummius adorned not merely Italy, but also the provinces, with statues and paintings. Yet he refrained so scrupulously from appropriating anything from such vast spoils to his own use that his daughter was in actual need and the Senate furnished her dowry at the public expense.^

Plin. N.H. xxxiv. vii. 17.
 * 146 B.C. Cf. Cic. de Off. 11. xxii. 76 ; in Verr. i. xxi. 55 ;

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