Laudator Temporis Acti

Pliny the Elder, Natural History 7.13.59-60 (tr. Mary Beagon):

(59) Q. Metellus Macedonicus, who left six children, also left eleven grandchildren and, including his daughters and sons-in-law, a total of twenty-seven people in all who addressed him as 'father'. (60) In the public records dating from the time of the deified Augustus, when he was consul for the twelfth time with L. Sulla as colleague, it is stated that, on 9 April, C. Crispinus Hilarus, a freeborn man of plebeian status from Faesulae, offered a sacrifice on the Capitol accompanied by his eight children, including two daughters, together with twenty-seven grandsons, eighteen great-grandsons, and eight granddaughters, in a procession which outshone all others.

(59) Q. Metellus Macedonicus, cum sex liberos relinqueret, XI nepotes reliquit, nurus vero generosque et omnes, qui se patris appellatione salutarent, XXVII. (60) in actis temporum Divi Augusti invenitur duodecimo consulatu eius L.que Sulla collega a. d. III. idus Aprilis C. Crispinum Hilarum ex ingenua plebe Faesulana cum liberis VIII, in quo numero filiae duae fuere, nepotibus XXVII, pronepotibus XVIII, neptibus VIII, praelata pompa tum omnibus, in Capitolio immolasse.

Crispinum rv: Crispinium EaD

Martin P. Nilsson, Imperial Rome, tr. G.C. Richards (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1926), p. 333 (on C. Crispinus Hilarus):

The man was plainly a marvel for the age, but his name is suggestive of a Greek freedman.

His name appears as C. Crispinius Hilarus in Prosopographia Imperii Romani Saec. I. II. III, number 1584.