Verum aliquanto maiores vires in Q. Cassio exhibuit, qui in Hispania Silium et Calpurnium, occidendi sui gratia cum pugionibus deprehensos, quinquagies sestertium ab illo, ab hoc sexagies pactus dimisit.
But avarice showed considerably greater power in the person of Q. Cassius. In Spain Silius and Calpurnius were caught with daggers intending to assassinate him. He released them, at the price of five million sesterces from the one and six million from the other.
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