Compare Book Seventy-one, chapter 6.] and he granted us, his coadjutors, full liberty to speak.—­He continued to preside till noonday.  After that he went riding as much as he could.  Next he took some kind of exercise and a bath.  He then consumed a not meagre lunch, either by himself or with his children.  Next, as a rule, he enjoyed a nap.  Later he rose, attended to his remaining duties of administration, and while walking about occupied himself with discussions of both Greek and Latin lore.  Then, toward evening, he would bathe again and dine with his attendants.  Very seldom did he have any outsider to dinner and only on days when it was quite unavoidable did he arrange expensive banquets.—­He lived sixty-five years, nine months, and twenty-five days, for he was born on the eleventh of April.  Of this he had ruled seventeen years, eight months and three days.  In fine, he showed himself so active that even expiring he gasped:  “Come, give it to us, if we have anything to do!”