Note 287 — Chapter III · VELLEIUS, CURTIUS AND HISTORY

I. xi., Metellus, who built the first marble temple at Rome, “uel magnificentiae uel luxuriae princeps fuit.” In I. xv. Velleius sympathizes with the opposition of “Puritans” like the consul Scipio to the completion of a theatre by Cassius, the censor, at Rome.