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REPUBLIC

• The largest fortune recorded is that of P. Licinius CRASSUS (died 53 B.C.), 400,000,000 sesterces (according to Pliny, Naturalis Historia 33.134), though SULLA (died 78 B.C.) and POMPEY (died 48 B.C.) both certainly exceeded his worth.
• VERGIL the poet, who had been impoverished by the confiscations after Philippi (42/1 B.C.), had 10,000,000 sesterces on his death.

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EMPIRE: The Senatorial Order

AMOUNT:	NAME:	Chronology:	Reference:
400,000,000	Cnaeus Cornelius Lentulus	died A.D. 25	.
300,000,000+	Lucius Volusius Saturninus	died A.D. 56	Tacitus, Ann. 13. 30
300,000,000	Lucius Annaeus SENECA	suicide, A.D. 65	Nero's minister
300,000,000	Vibius Crispus	died A.D. 83/93	.
288,000,000	Largest fortune in Plutarch's time	ca. end of I. cent. A.D.	.
280,000,000	Emperor Tacitus	ca. A.D. 275	debased money, however
200,000,000	C. Sallustius Passienus Crispus	.	.
110,000,000	M. Gavius Apicius	died after A.D. 28	gourmet, cookbook author
100,000,000	L. Tarius Rufus	died A. D. 14	friend of Augustus, a general
60,000,000	M. Aquillius Regulus	died ca. A. D. 105	.
40,000,000+	Lollia Paulina	died A. D. 49	Her father ruled Macedonia, A. D. 11-35
20,000,000	Galen	ca. 160-180	the celebrated physician a moderate fortune, for the time
20,000,000	C. Plinius Secundus	died A. D. 113	friend of Trajan, patron of Suetonius, author of Epistulae
5,000,000	M. Calpurnius Piso	in A. D. 20	.
1,800,000	M. Hortensius Hortalus	died after A. D. 16	son of the famous orator object of imperial benefaction

EMPIRE: Imperial Freedmen

AMOUNT:	NAME:	Chronology:	Reference:
400,000,000	Narcissus	died A. D. 54	ab epistulis to Claudius
300,000,000	Pallas	died A. D. 62	a rationibus to Claudius
200,000,000+	Callistus	died A. D. 52	a libellis to Claudius
200,000,000	Licinus	died under Tiberius	financial procurator to the treasury in Gallia Narbonensis

EMPIRE: Other Freedmen

AMOUNT:	NAME:	Chronology:	Reference:
60,000,000	C. Caecilius Isidorus	died 8 B. C.	also left 4,116 slaves and 257,000 head of cattle (Pliny Natural History 33.135)

EMPIRE: Provincial Notables

AMOUNT:	NAME:	Chronology:	Reference:
100,000,000	Ti. Claudius Hipparchus	died after A. D. 81	Athenian. Grandfather of the multimillionaire Herodes Atticus
30,000,000	C. Stertinius Xenophon and his brother	Claudian period	a physician
4,000,000	Aemilia Pudentilla	ca. A. D. 158/9	Oea, Tripolitania
4,000,000	C. Licinius Marinus Voconius Romanus	ca. A. D. 100	Saguntum, Hispania Baetica
3,000,000	Herennius Rufinus	158/9	Oea, Tripolitania
2,000,000	Lucius Apuleius	ca. 140-150	Madauros, Africa. Father of the novelist who wrote the Metamorphoses (Golden Ass)