Do we wonder now that
 this man should be so far superior to all others, when his legions arrived in Asia in such order that not only no man's hand in so numerous an
 army, but not even any man's footstep was said to have done the least injury to any peaceful
 inhabitant? But now we have daily rumours—yes, and letters too—brought to Rome about the way in which the soldiers are behaving in their
 winter quarters; not only is no one compelled to spend money on the entertainment of the troops,
 but he is not permitted to do so, even if he wish. For our ancestors thought fit that the houses
 of our allies and friends should be a shelter to our soldiers from the winter, not a theatre for
 the exercise of their avarice.