I was present at an entertainment he gave at his villa in Sicily.

He fitted up one of his vessels from the descriptions of the furnishing of Cleopatra's galley, and made his slaves swim after us as attendant Tritons.

Oh! it was magnificent!' 'I should like to know him.' 'You should see his cats! He has a perfect legion of them at his villa.

Twelve slaves are employed to attend on them.

He is mad about cats, and declares that the old Egyptians were right to worship them.
He told me yesterday, that when his largest cat is dead he will canonise her, in spite of the Christians! And then he is so kind to his slaves! They are never whipped or punished, except when they neglect or disfigure themselves; for Vetranio will allow nothing that is ugly or dirty to come near him.