The Senate voted that he should receive a sum of money from the treasury, but the treasurers were not willing to open it on that day; whereupon he said that he would open it himself, for the reason it was kept closed, he declared, was because he had fdled it with so much money. 1
1 Cf. Polybius, xxxiii. 14; and Valerius Maximus, iii. 7. 1.