Rome was his model, her ideals were his ideals.

Therefore he built amphitheatres in which men were butchered, to the exquisite delight of vast audiences.

Therefore, also, without the excuse of any conscientious motive, however insufficient or unsatisfactory, he persecuted the weak because they were weak and their sufferings would give pleasure to the strong or to those who chanced to be the majority of the moment.
The season being hot it was arranged that the great games in honour of the safety of Caesar, should open each day at dawn and come to an end an hour before noon.

Therefore from midnight onwards crowds of spectators poured into the amphitheatre, which, although it would seat over twenty thousand, was not large enough to contain them all.

An hour before the dawn the place was full, and already late comers were turned back from its gates.