[20,14] Νεμέριος Φάβιος Πίκτωρ καὶ Κόιντος Φάβιος Μάξιμος καὶ Κόιντος Ὀγούλνιος πρὸς τὸν Φιλάδελφον Πτολεμαῖον πρεσβεύσαντες {περὶ πρεσβείας} καὶ δωρεαῖς ἰδίαις τιμηθέντες ὑπ´ αὐτοῦ· ἦρχε δὲ τῆς Αἰγύπτου δεύτερος μετὰ τὸν Μακεδόνα Ἀλέξανδρον· ἐπειδὴ κατέπλευσαν εἰς τὴν πόλιν, τά τε ἄλλα ἀπήγγειλαν, ὅσα διεπράξαντο κατὰ τὴν ἀποδημίαν, καὶ τὰς δωρεάς, ἃς παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως ἔλαβον, εἰς τὸ δημόσιον ἀνήνεγκαν· οὓς ἡ βουλὴ πάντων ἀγασθεῖσα τῶν ἔργων οὐκ εἴασε δημοσιῶσαι τὰς βασιλικὰς χάριτας, ἀλλ´ εἰς τοὺς ἑαυτῶν οἴκους ἀπενέγκασθαι τιμὰς ἀρετῆς καὶ κόσμους ἐκγόνοις.

[20,14] (20.4) Numerius Fabius Pictor, Quintus Fabius Maximus and Quintus Ogulnius, who had gone as ambassadors to Ptolemy Philadelphus, the second to rule Egypt after the Macedonian Alexander, and had been honoured by him with individual gifts, 2 upon returning to Rome not only reported all that they had accomplished during their absence, but also turned over to the public treasury the gifts which they had received from the king. But the senate, admiring the men for all their achievements, did not permit them to turn the royal gifts over to the state, but allowed them to take them back to their homes as rewards of merit and decorations for their descendants.