“ Therefore he vexes the city at the most unhealthy time and, the fact that he vexes, he considers a consolation. He says that he would like to marry, and in this matter he behaves as perversley as he does in everything else. ”

“ They all loathe and detest him, yet as if they approve, as if they esteem him, they flock and swarm. To express briefly what I think, in paying court to Regulus, they immitate Regulus. He keeps himself on the other side of the Tiber in Gardens, where he has covered the widest area with huge colonades and the riverbank with his statues, as in spite of his utmost greed he is extravagent, in spite of his utmost notoriety, he is ostentatious. ”