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Bobbio Scholiast on Cicero

Dicit factum Gabinium superbiorem illo praecipue, quod esset aere alieno defaeneratus. Et utitur ambiguis locorum nominibus: nam puteal vocabatur locus in vicinia fori, ubi erat columna etiam Maenia aput quam debitores a creditoribus proscribebantur.

He says that Gabinius became more insolent chiefly for that reason, because he had been overwhelmed by debt. And he uses both names of the places: for the place in the vicinity of the forum was called the Puteal, where there was also the Columna Maenia, where debtors were proscribed by creditors.

Translation by Jane W. Crawford, © 2001.

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