Quem cito secuti multi extulerunt eorum pretia, ita ut ova eorum denariis veneant quinis, ipsi facile quinquagenis, grex centenarius facile quadragena milia sestertia ut reddat, ut quidem Abuccius aiebat, si in singulos ternos exigeret pullos, perfici sexagena posse.
As his example was quickly followed by many, the price has risen to such a point that the eggs sell for five denarii each, the birds themselves sell readily for 50 each, and a flock of 100 easily brings 40,000 sesterces'in fact, Abuccius used to say that if one required three chicks to every hen, the total might amount to 60,000.
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