45. The new Capitol was dedicated by Domitian. Sueton. in
Domitian. c. 5. Plutarch in Poplicola [c. 15], tom. i. p.
230, edit. Bryant. The gilding alone cost 12,000 talents
(above two millions and a half). It was the opinion of
Martial (1. ix. Epigram 4), that, if the emperor had called
in his debts, Jupiter himself, even though he had made a
general auction of Olympus would have been unable to pay two
shillings in the pound.