Catiline has the best cooks and the finest wine in Rome.
There are charming women at his parties.

But the twelve-line board and the dice-box pay for all.

The Gods confound me if I did not lose two millions of sesterces last night.

My villa at Tibur, and all the statues that my father the praetor brought from Ephesus, must go to the auctioneer.

That is a high price, you will acknowledge, even for Phoenicopters, Chian, and Callinice." "High indeed, by Pollux." "And that is not the worst.