He lived in habits of the most unreserved familiarity with his soldiers.

He associated freely with them, ate and drank with them in the open air, and joined in their noisy mirth and rude and boisterous hilarity.

His commanding powers of mind, and the desperate recklessness of his courage, enabled him to do all this without danger.

These qualities inspired in the minds of the soldiers a feeling of profound respect for their commander; and this good opinion he was enabled to retain, notwithstanding such habits of familiarity with his inferiors as would have been fatal to the influence of an ordinary man.
In the most prosperous portion of Antony's career--for example, during the period immediately preceding the death of Caesar--he addicted himself to vicious indulgences of the most open, public, and shameless character.

He had around him a sort of court, formed of jesters, tumblers, mountebanks, play-actors, and other similar characters of the lowest and most disreputable class.