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Surely not.
https://www.loebclassics.com/view/petronius-satyricon/1913/pb_LCL015.109.xml
Alan Isaac

On 6/21/2017 6:57 AM, Rob Tye wrote:
> The satirist Petronius had the enormously wealthy
> Tremalchio have “10 million sesterces put in the strong box because they
> could not be invested”  Read in context this was surely a sophisticated and
> deliberate macro-economic joke.

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