c. 15.
To each man of the Roman plebs I paid three hundred sesterces in accordance with the last will of my father;69 and in my own name, when consul for the fifth time, I gave four hundred sesterces from the spoils of the wars;70 again, moreover, in my tenth consulship I gave from my own estate four hundred sesterces to each man by way of congiarium;71 and in my eleventh consulship I twelve times made distributions of food, buying grain at my own expense;72 and in the twelfth year of my tribunitial power I three times gave four hundred sesterces to each man.73 These my donations have never been made to less than two hundred and fifty thousand men.74 In my twelfth consulship and the eighteenth year of my tribunitial power I gave to three hundred and twenty thousand of the city plebs sixty denarii apiece.75 In the colonies of my soldiers, when consul for the fifth time, I gave to each man a thousand sesterces from the spoils; about a hundred and twenty thousand men in the colonies received that triumphal donation.76 When consul for the thirteenth time I gave sixty denarii to the plebs who were at that time receiving public grain; these men were a little more than two hundred thousand in number.77 78