Only the blind love for his second son, encouraged by the women, caused him to forget his moderation and prudence.

My brother Geta was to reign together with me over the empire, which ought to have been mine alone as the first-born.

Every year festivals were kept, with prayers and sacrifices, to the 'love of the brothers.' You have perhaps seen the coins, which show us hand in hand, and have on them the inscription, 'Eternal union'! "I in union--I hand in hand with the man I most hated under the sun! It almost maddened me only to hear his voice.

I would have liked best of all to spring at his throat when I saw him with his learned fellows squandering their time.

Do you know what they did?
They invented the names by which the voices of different animals were to be known.