"is known throughout the world as the most renowned example of the prodigious rise and frightful fall of a favorite, w…"

"This famous man, [Gnaeus Domitius Afro] often praised by Quintilian as the greatest orator he had heard, was born in …"

"It was more difficult to gain access to Sejano than to the Emperor. The favor of an audience with this insolent Minis…"

"[...] History does not instruct only with the story of virtues: it presents of every , but always lessons, when one k…"

"[Caligula] No Prince ever found more favorable dispositions in those who had to obey him when he ascended the Throne.…"

"had none of those vices which directly society, and he also possessed to a high degree the contrary virtues, modesty,…"

"[Trajano] I have spoken more than once of his passion for wine, by which he was, according to one Author, obliged to …"

"Commodus had demonstrated himself from his early years as he was later to progress: devoid of elevation of soul, feel…"

"Cleandro was part of all the pleasures, or rather, of all the debaucheries of Commodus, and having thus gained his co…"

"To multiply his earnings, Cleander multiplied his offices, and appointed, which had never been seen before, twenty-fi…"