splendid town house of the orator Crassus 663), famous
for the old trees of its garden, wal valued with the trees at 6,000,000 sesterces (£00,000), without them at the half; while the value of an ordinary dwelling-house in Rome may be estimated perhaps at 60,000 sesterces (£600).
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903
