When Faustus, the son of Sulla, because of a multitude of debts, posted a notice of an auction of his goods, Cicero said, ‘I find this notice more welcome than the kind which his father used to post.’ 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Cicero, chap. xxvii. (874 D), and Cicero, Letters to Atticus, ix. 11. The reference, of course, is to the proscription lists of men condemned which Sulla posted.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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