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Twelve Emperors by Suetonius

Tiberius Chapter 46: His frugality.
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In money matters he [Note 1] was frugal and close, never allowing the companions of his foreign tours and campaigns a salary, but merely their keep. Only once did he treat them liberally, and then through the generosity of his step-father, when he formed three classes according to each man's rank and gave to the first six hundred thousand sesterces, to the second four hundred thousand, and to the third, which he called one, not of his friends, but of his Greeks, two hundred thousand.

Note 1: Tiberius