He gave several gladiatorial shows, some in the amphitheatre of Taurus® and some in the Saepta, in which he introduced pairs of African and Campanian boxers, the pick of both regions. He did not always preside at the games in person, but sometimes assigned the honour to the magistrates or to friends. He exhibited stage-plays continually, of various kinds and in many different places, sometimes even by night, lighting up the whole city. He also threw about gift-tokens® of various kinds, and gave each mana basket of victuals. During the feasting he sent his share to a Roman knight opposite him, who was eating with evident relish and appetite, while to a senator for the same reason he gave a commission naming him praetor out of the regular order. Healso gave many games in the Circus, lasting from early morning until evening, introducing between the races now a baiting of panthers ® and now the manceuvres of the game called Troy ; some, too, of special splendour, in which the Circus was strewn with red and green, while the charicteers were all men of senatorial rank. He also started some games off-hand, when a few people called for them from the neighbouring balconies,° as he was inspecting the outtit of the Circus from the Gelotian house.