[-28-] “Now after this is there any need of mentioning that he served as master of the horse an entire year, something which had never before been done?  Or that during this period also he was drunk and abusive and in the assemblies would frequently vomit the remains of yesterday’s debauch on the rostra itself, in the midst of his harangues?  Or that he went about Italy at the head of pimps and prostitutes and buffoons, women as well as men, in company with the lictors bearing festoons of laurel?  Or that he alone of mankind dared to buy the property of Pompey, having no regard for his own dignity or the great man’s memory, but grasping eagerly those possessions over which we even now as at that time shed a tear?  He threw himself upon this and many other estates with the evident intention of making no recompense for them.  Yet with all his insolence and violence the price was nevertheless collected, for Caesar took this way of discountenancing his act.  And all that he has acquired, vast in extent and gathered from every source, he has consumed in dicing, consumed in harlotry, consumed in feasting, consumed in drinking, like a second Charybdis.

[-29-] “Of this behavior I shall make no chronicle.  But on the subject of the insults which he offered to the State and the assassinations which he caused throughout the whole city alike how can any man be silent?  Is memory lacking of how oppressive the very sight of him was to you, but most of all his deeds?  He dared, O thou earth and ye gods, first in this place, within the wall, in the Forum, in the senate-house, on the Capitol, at one and the same time to array himself in the purple-bordered garb, to gird a sword on his thigh, to employ lictors, and to be escorted by armed soldiers.  Next, whereas he might have checked the turmoil of the citizens, he not only failed to do so, but set you at variance when you were in concord, partly by his own acts and partly through the medium of others.  Moreover he directed his attention in turn to the latter themselves, and by now assisting them and now abandoning them[9] incurred full responsibility for great numbers of them being slain and for the fact that the entire region of Pontus and of the Parthians was not subdued at that time immediately after the victory over Pharnaces.  Caesar, being called hither in haste to see what he was doing, did not finish entirely any of those projects, as he was surely intending.

[-30-] “Even this result did not sober him, but when he was consul he came naked, naked, Conscript Fathers, and anointed into the Forum, taking the Lupercalia as an excuse, then proceeded in company with his lictors to the rostra, and there harangued us from the elevation.  From the day the city was founded no one can point to any one else, even a praetor or tribune or aedile, let alone a consul, who has done such a thing.  To be sure it was the festival of the Lupercalia, and the Lupercalia had been put in charge of the Julian