When his father died he left him to the value of a hundred drachmas in Persian money.

In token of his gratitude he had despatched a present of forty thousand drachmas of gold to the singer, and her renown went broadcast like a flame.

She, like Geminius, had a personal grudge against him, for in his sixth consulship he had fined her four drachmas for ill-conduct.

9d.); very small separate portions, sixty or seventy leptas (6d. or 7d.); the attendance, that is, the superintendence of the guardian, two drachmas a-day; the supply of water, fifteen leptas daily; the physician, a drachma; and another drachma on leaving, for which he inspects the whole party, and examines the state of their health.