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Endowment for Poor Children 505
compel persons to receive it, who are not so disposed, when
possibly they themselves may have no opportunity of employing
it, is by no means consistent with the justice of
my government.
II.
Endowment for the Support of Poor Children
When the Imperator Caesar Nerva Trajan Augustus Under^
Germanicus was consul for the fourth time and Quintus
Articuleius Paetus was consul, those named below at the inscription.
direction of our greatest and best Emperor mortgaged ^„„-^„^
their estates so that, from the contract, the Sigures B^biani
received semi-annual interest, and the boys and girls
of the Ligures Baebiani support, through the tenderness of
Trajan.
Also of the estate Pastorianus, in the territory of Beneventum,
in the district ^quanus; Priscia Restituta and
the people are neighbors to the estate. Rated at 60,000
sesterces; 125,000 sesterces is the value of the property,
8,000 sesterces received, Callistus, servant of Rutilius
Lupus pays the interest.
[Many other mortgages also are here recorded.]
World, 487.
III.
Hadrian
Arriving in Gaul, he liberally relieved the needy, and Military dis«
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then passed on to Germany. Though more desirous ot
peace than of war, he exercised his soldiers as if war threat-
cipline.
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ened; he hardened them to fatigue, set them, in his own ^^^.^^^
person, an example of military virtue, and readily ate the World, 487!.
food of the camp—bacon, cheese, and vinegar mixed with
water; in these respects he imitated Scipio yEmilianus,
Metellus, and Trajan, the author of his fortune. To make
his men willing to endure hardships, he rewarded many