The emperor offered him favor and patronage, which he refused.

He came up through mystery, and keepeth distance as if he felt himself better or knew himself worse than the rest of us.

In the palaestrae he was unmatched; he played with the blue-eyed giants from the Rhine and the hornless bulls of Sarmatia as they were willow wisps.

The duumvir left him vastly rich.

He has a passion for arms, and thinks of nothing but war.