How to Get a Good Night's Sleep in Latin

Bingley, who has written great biographies for this site and has partially solved the mystery of the gladiators, posted a link to a 17th century Praxis Grammatica yesterday on the blog post about old advice for Latin teachers. The Praxis includes 608 sentences in Latin and in English. Here is the last entry:

[ 608 ] Equite Romano quodam defuncto, compertum est illum tantum habuisse aeris alieni ut solvere nullo modo posset: idque dum viveret, celaverat. Quum igitur res illius auctioni sujicerentur ut ex pecunia aliquibus ejus creditoribus satisfieret, Augustus jussit sibi emi culcitram illius cubicularem: ac mirantibus hoc praeceptum: Habenda est, inquit, ad somnum mihi conciliandum illa culcitra, in qua ille tanto aere alieno obstrictus somnum capere potuit. Nam Augustus ob ingentes curas saepe maximam noctis partem ducebat insomnem.

[ 608 ] When a certain Roman knight had died, it was discovered that he had been in such great debt that he could not in any way pay it off. While he was alive, he had hidden this fact. So when his property was put up for auction to pay some of his creditors, Augustus had his mattress bought for himself. To those who were suprised by this instruction, he said, "To get some sleep for myself, I have to have that mattress on which he could take his rest even while under the burden of such debt." For Augustus, on account of his tremendous concerns, often spent most of the night awake.