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28Or that during this period also he was drunk and maudlin and in the assemblies would frequently vomit the remains of yesterday’s debauch on the very rostra in the midst of his harangues? 2Or that he went about Italy at the head of pimps and prostitutes and buffoons, women as well as men, in the company of his lictors bearing their festoons of laurel? 3Or that he alone of all men dared to buy the estate of Pompey, having no regard for his own dignity or that great man’s memory, but grasping with delight these possessions over which we all even at that time lamented? Indeed, he fairly threw himself upon this and many other estates with the expectation of making no recompense for them. 4Yet the price was nevertheless exacted from him with every indignity and show of violence; so thoroughly did even Caesar condemn his course. And all that he has acquired, vast in extent and levied from every source, he has swallowed up in dicing, in harlotry, in feasting and in drinking, like a second Charybdis.
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