tunc Crassus: uter igitur luxuriosior est, egone, qui decem columnas centum milibus nummum emi, an tu, qui decem arbuscularum umbram tricies sestertii summa compensas? sermonem oblitum Pyrrhi, immemorem Hannibalis, iamque transmarinorum stipendiorum abundantia oscitantem! et quanto tamen insequentium saeculorum aedificiis et nemoribus angustiorem quam introduxerunt! atqui incohatam a se lautitiam posteris relinquere quam a maioribus acceptam continentiam retinere maluerunt.
So which of us is the more extravagant, I, that bought ten columns for a hundred thousand or you who balance the shade of ten trees with three million sesterces? A conversation oblivious of Pyrrhus, forgetful of Hannibal, already yawning at the abundance of transmarine taxes! And yet how much more restrained than the buildings and groves of subsequent epochs * * * which they introduced! But they preferred to leave to posterity the sumptuousness they initiated rather than the continence they had received from their forebears.
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