Note 82 — CICERO IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE (continued 2)
Adnah David Jones translation
His villa at Tusculum particularly had cost him very dear. What proves it to have been of great value is that on his return from exile the senate allowed him 500,000 sesterces (£4000) to repair the damage it had suffered in his absence, and that he thought they were far from having given him enough.