In short, he often showed such heedlessness in word and act that one would suppose that he did not know or care to whom, where he was speaking. with whom, when, or When a debate was going on about the butchers and vintners, he cried out in the House: “ Now, pray, who can live without a snack,” and then went on to describe the abundance of the old taverns to which he himself used to go for wine in earlier days. He gave us one of his reasons for supporting a candidate for the quaestorship, that the man’s father had once given him cold water when he was ill and needed it. Once when a witness had been brought before the senate, he said: “This woman was my mother’s freedwoman and _ tirewoman, but she always regarded me as her patron ; I mention this because there are still some in my household now who do not look on me as patron.” When the people of Ostia made a public petition to him, he flew into a rage on the very tribunal and bawled out that he had no reason for obliging them ; that he was surely free if anyone was. In fact every day, and almost every hour and minute, he would mzke such remarks as these ; “ What! do you take me fora Telegenius?’’% “ Scold me, but hands off!’ and many others of the same kind which would be unbecoming even in private citizens, not to mention a prince who lacked neither eloquence nor culture, but on the contrary constantly devoted himself to liberal pursuits.