M. Tullius Cicero Pro P. Quinctio 12

[12] So there was no reason in the world for your taking him as a partner, except that he might learn with your money what a harvest money can produce. Nevertheless, induced by acquaintance and intimacy with the man, Quinctius, as I have said, entered into a partnership with him as to those articles which were procured in Gaul . He had considerable property in cattle, and a well-cultivated and productive farm. Naevius is carried off from the halls of Licinius, ¹ and from the gang of criers, into Gaul and across the Alps ; there is a great change in his situation, ² none in his disposition; for he who from his boyhood had been proposing to himself gain without any outlay, as soon as he spent anything himself and brought it to the common stock, could not be content with a moderate profit.