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M'. autem Curius, exactissima norma Romanae frugalitatis idemque fortitudinis perfectissimum specimen, Samnitium legatis agresti se in scamno adsidentem foco eque ligneo catillo cenantem—quales epulas apparatus indicio est—spectandum praebuit: ille enim Samnitium diuitias contempsit, Samnites eius paupertatem mirati sunt: nam cum ad eum magnum pondus auri publice missum attulissent, benignis uerbis inuitatus ut eo uti uellet, uultum risu soluit et protinus 'superuacuae' inquit, 'ne dicam ineptae legationis ministri, narrate Samnitibus M'. Curium malle locupletibus imperare quam ipsum fieri locupletem, atque istud ut pretiosum, ita malo hominum excogitatum munus refertote et mementote me nec acie uinci nec pecunia corrumpi posse'. Idem, cum Italia Pyrrum regem exegisset, nihil omnino ex praeda regia, qua exercitum urbemque ditauerat, adtigit. decretis etiam a senatu septenis iugeribus agri populo, sibi autem quinquaginta, popularis adsignationis modum non excessit parum idoneum rei publicae ciuem existimans qui eo, quod reliquis tribueretur, contentus non esset.
Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.
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