He first inhabited a small house in the Suburra, The Suburra
						lay between the Celian and Esquiline hills. It was one of the most frequented quarters
						of Rome . but after his
					advancement to the pontificate, he occupied a palace belonging to the state in
					the Via Sacra. Many writers say that he liked his residence to be elegant, and
					his entertainments sumptuous; and that he entirely took down a villa near the
					grove of Aricia , Which he had built
					from the foundation and finished at a vast expense, because it did not exactly
					suit his taste, although he had at that time but slender means, and was in debt;
					and that he carried about in his expeditions tesselated and marble slabs for the
					floor of his tent. They likewise report that he invaded Britain in hopes of finding pearls, Bede,
						quoting Solinus, we believe, says that excellent pearls were found in the
						British seas, and that they were of all colors, but principally white. Eccl.
						Hist. b. i. c. i. the size of which he would compare together, and
					ascertain the weight by poising them in his hand; that he would purchase, at any
					cost, gems, carved works, statues, and pictures, executed by the eminent masters
					of antiquity; and that he would give for young and handy slaves a price so
					extravagant, that he forbad its being entered in the diary of his expenses. We are also told, that in the provinces he constantly maintained two tables, one
					for the officers of the army, and the gentry of the country, and the other for
					Romans of the highest rank, and provincials of the highest distinction., He was
					so very exact in the management of his domestic affairs, both little and great,
					that he once threw a baker into prison, for serving him with a finer sort of
					bread than his guests; and put to death a freed-man, who was a particular
					favourite, for debauching the lady of a Roman knight, although no complaint had
					been made to him of the affair. * * * Thomson has omitted this chapter * *
						* It is admitted by all that he was much addicted to women, as well as very
					expensive in his intrigues with them, and that he debauched many ladies of the
					highest quality; among whom were Posthumia, the wife of Servius Sulpicius;
					Lollia, the wife of Aulus Gabinius; Tertulla, the wife of Marcus Crassus; and
					Mucia, the wife of Cneius Pompey. For it is certain that the Curios, both father
					and son, and many others, made it a reproach to Pompey, "That to gratify his
					ambition, he married the daughter of a man, upon whose account he had divorced
					his wife, after having had three children by her; and whom he used, with a deep
					sigh, to call AEgisthus." AEgisthus, who, like Caesar, was
						a pontiff, debauched Clytemnestra while Agamemnon was engaged in the Trojan
						war, as Caesar did Mucla, the wife of Pompey, while absent in the war
						against Mithridates. But the mistress he most loved, was Servilia,
					the mother of Marcus Brutus. for whom he purchased. in his first consulship
					after the commencement of their intrigue, a pearl which cost him six millions of
					sesterces; and in the civil war, besides other presents, assigned to her, for a
					trifling consideration, some valuable farms when they were exposed to public
					auction. Many persons expressing their surprise at the lowness of the price,
					Cicero wittily remarked, "To let you know the real value of the purchase,
					between ourselves, Tertia was deducted:" for Servilia was supposed to have
					prostituted her daughter Tertia to Caesar. A double
						entendre; Tertia signifying the third [of the value of the farm], as well as
						being the name of the girl, for whose favours the deduction was made.