30/126 He ordered, therefore, that the quaestors should sell this property and deposit the proceeds in the treasury." 16. He then ordered his house to be immediately razed, that the vacant ground might serve as a monument of nefarious hopes destroyed. Lucius Minucius was presented with a gilded ox on the outside of the gate Trigemina, and this not even against the will of the commons, because he distributed Maelius's corn, after valuing it at one _as_ per bushel. In some writers I find that this Minucius had changed sides from the patricians to the commons, and that having been chosen as eleventh tribune of the people, he quieted a commotion which arose on the death of Maelius. |