Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 14.6.11

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[11] For that reason the eminent Valerius Publicola was buried by a contribution of money,¹ and through the aid of her husband’s friends² the needy wife of Regulus and her children were supported. And the daughter of Scipio³ received her dowry from the public treasury, since the nobles blushed to look upon the beauty of this marriageable maiden long unsought because of the absence of a father of modest means.

Res Gestae. Ammianus Marcellinus. John C. Rolfe (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1935-1940.

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History (English) (Ammianus Marcellinus. Ammianus Marcellinus, with an English translation, Vols. I-III. Rolfe, John C., translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; W. Heinemann, 1935-1940 (printing).)

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[11] Hac¹ ex causa collaticia stipe Valerius humatur ille Publicola, et subsidiis amicorum mariti, inops cum liberis uxor alitur Reguli, et dotatur ex aerario filia Scipionis, cum nobilitas florem adultae virginis diuturnum absentia pauperis erubesceret patris.

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1. In 503 B.C.; see Livy, ii. 16, 7.

2. Valerius Maximus, iv. 4, 6, says that it was the senate that came to their aid.

3. Cn. Cornelius Scipio, who wrote from Spain in the second Punic war, asking to be recalled, that he might provide a dowry for his daughter; see Valerius Maximus, iv. 4, 10.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 14.6.11

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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