"He has been rating my father about my pranks with Gabinius and Laeca, and something unpleasant is in store for me." [96] Cato Minor's sister Portia was the wife of Lucius Domitius.
Cato was also connected with the Drusi through Marcus Livius Drusus, the murdered reformer, who was the maternal uncle of Cato and Portia.
Lucius Ahenobarbus and Quintus Drusus were thus third cousins.
Domitius presently appeared, and his son soon noticed by the affable yet diplomatic manner of his father, and the gentle warmth of his greeting, that although there was something in the background, it was not necessarily very disagreeable.
"My dear Lucius," began Domitius, after the first civilities were over, and the father and son had strolled into a handsomely appointed library and taken seats on a deeply upholstered couch, "I have, I think, been an indulgent parent.

But I must tell you, I have heard some very bad stories of late about your manner of life." "Oh!" replied Lucius, smiling.

"As your worthy friend Cicero remarked when defending young Caelius, 'those sorts of reproaches are regularly heaped on every one whose person or appearance in youth is at all gentlemanly.'" "I will thank you if you will not quote Cicero to me," replied the elder man, a little tartly.

"He will soon be back from Cilicia, and will be prodding and wearying us in the Senate quite enough, with his rhetoric and sophistries.

But I must be more precise.