What I am expecting to hear from you is, what Arrius says, and how he endures being left in the lurch, and who are intended to be consuls—is it Pompey and Crassus, or, as I am told in a letter, Servius Sulpicius with Gabinius?—and whether there are any new laws or anything new at all; and, since Nepos is leaving Rome, who is to have the augurship—the one bait by which those personages could catch me!

He approached the throne reverently.

Most of the time, he had the unpleasant job of first assistant, the guy who has to drag the ‘guillotinee’ through the lunette by his head and hold him steady while the blade comes down.

We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture.