At his table the most varied medley of people of every position and calling found places.

Among them were senators, but mainly those who were content to be jesters as well.
There were patricians, old and young, eager for luxury, excess, and enjoyment.

There were women with great names, who did not hesitate to put on a yellow wig of an evening and seek adventures on dark streets for amusement's sake.

There were also high officials, and priests who at full goblets were willing to jeer at their own gods.

At the side of these was a rabble of every sort: singers, mimes, musicians, dancers of both sexes; poets who, while declaiming, were thinking of the sesterces which might fall to them for praise of Caesar's verses; hungry philosophers following the dishes with eager eyes; finally, noted charioteers, tricksters, miracle-wrights, tale-tellers, jesters, and the most varied adventurers brought through fashion or folly to a few days' notoriety.