Tongilianus, you paid two hundred for your house
Martial, Epigrams III, 52
Tongilianus, you paid two hundred for your house;
An accident much common in this city destroyed it.
You collected ten times more. Doesn’t it seem, I pray,
That you set fire to your own house, Tongilianus?
Even though fires used to be actually common in Rome, similar insurance frauds happened as well.
Leave a Comment