c. 15.
To each man of the RomanplebsI paid three hundred sesterces in accordance with the last will of my father;69and in my own name, when consul for the fifth time, I gave four hundred sesterces from the spoils of the wars;70again, moreover, in my tenth consulship I gave from my own estate four hundred sesterces to each man by way ofcongiarium;71and in my eleventh consulship I twelve times made distributions of food, buying grain at my own expense;72and in the twelfth year of my tribunitial power I three times gave four hundred sesterces to each man.73These my donations have never been made to less than two hundred and fifty thousand men.74In my twelfth consulship and the eighteenth year of my tribunitial power I gave to three hundred and twenty thousand of the cityplebssixtydenariiapiece.75In 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.76When consul for the thirteenth time I gave sixtydenariito theplebswho were at that time receiving public grain; these men were a little more than two hundred thousand in number.7778