6. Claudius, raised by the soldiers to the empire, was the
first who gave a donative. He gave quina dena, 120 l.
(Sueton. in Claud. c. 10): when Marcus, with his colleague
Lucius Verus, took quiet possession of the throne, he gave
vicena, 160 l. to each of the guards. Hist. August. p. 25.
(Dion, 1. lxxiii. p. 1231.) We may form some idea of the
amount of these sums, by Hadrian's complaint, that the
promotion of a Caesar had cost him ter millies, two
millions and a half sterling.