2 Sentences With "at an excessive price"

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Mr. Salomon made leather boots or shoes in a large establishment. His sons wanted to become business partners, so he turned the business into a limited company. The company purchased Salomon's business at an excessive price for its value. His wife and five elder children became subscribers and the two elder sons became directors. Mr. Salomon took 20,001 of the company's 20,007 shares which was payment from A Salomon & Co Ltd.
Plutarch, Parallel Lives, The Life of Caesar, However, the picture might have been more nuanced than this. Crassus may also have had another reason—having to do with the equites—for joining an alliance against the optimates. Cicero noted that in 60 BC Crassus advocated for the equites and induced them to demand that the senate annul some contracts they had taken up in the Roman province of Asia (in today's western Turkey) at an excessive price. The equites (equestrians) were a wealthy class of entrepreneurs who constituted the second social order in Rome, just below the patricians.