Endnote 37 – Financing the Colosseum

Carol H. V. Sutherland (“The State of the Imperial Treasury at the Death of Domitian,” Journal of Roman Studies 25 [1935] p. 158 n. 62), states that an emendation by Guillaume Budé to quadragies, i.e. four thousand million, has been noted by Maximilian Ihm in his editio minor of Suetonius, Vespasian 16.3 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1933) 305; but the unanimous reading of the manuscripts is quadringenties.