Note 083
From Chapter 40 of the Decline & Fall

See Corippus de Laudibus Justini Aug. l. ii. 260, etc., 384, etc.

"Plurima sunt vivo nimium neglecta parenti,
Unde tot exhaustus contraxit debita fiscus."

Centenaries of gold were brought by strong men into the Hippodrome,

"Debita persolvit, genitoris cauta recepit."
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