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Of the unlimited treasure which was found he took nothing himself, but to his son-in-law Tubero 1 he gave a silver goblet of five pounds weight in recognition of his supreme valour. And this, they say, is the first silver heirloom that ever found its way into the Aelian house. 2

1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Aemilius Paulus, chap. v. (257 C).

2 Ibid. chap. xxviii. (270 E); cf. also Pliny, Natural History, xxxiii. 50 (142); and Valerius Maximus, iv. 4. 9.

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