In the service of his clients, while yet a young man, he evinced great zeal and
					fidelity. He defended the cause of a noble youth, Masintha, against king
					Hiempsal, so strenuously, that in a scuffle which took place upon the occasion,
					he seized by the beard the son of king Juba ; and upon Masintha's being declared tributary to Hiempsal,
					while the friends of the adverse party were violently carrying him off, he
					immediately rescued him by force, kept him concealed in his house a long time,
					and when, at the expiration of his praetorship, he went to Spain , he took him away in his litter, in the
					midst of his lictors bearing the fasces, and others who had come to attend and
					take leave of him. He always treated his friends with such kindness and good-nature, that when Caius
					Oppius, in travelling with him through a forest, was suddenly taken ill, he
					resigned to him the only place there was to shelter them at night, and lay upon
					the ground in the open air. When he had placed himself at the head of affairs,
					he advanced some of his faithful adherents, though of mean extraction, to the
					highest offices; and when he was censured for this partiality, he openly said,
					"Had I been assisted by robbers and cut-throats in the defense of my honour, I
					should have made them the same recompense." The resentment he entertained against any one was never so implacable that he did
					not very willingly renounce it when opportunity offered. Although Caius Memmius
					had published some extremely virulent speeches against him, and he had answered
					them with equal acrimony, yet he afterwards assisted him with his vote and
					interest, when he stood candidate for the consulship. When C. Calvus, after
					publishing some scandalous epigrams upon him, endeavoured to effect a
					reconciliation by the intercession of friends, he wrote to him, of his own
					accord; the first letter. And when Valerius Catullus, who had, as he himself
					observed, fixed such a stain upon his character in his verses upon Mamurra as
					never could be obliterated, he begged his pardon, invited him to supper the same
					day; and continued to take up his lodging with his father occasionally, as he
					had been accustomed to do. His temper was also naturally averse to severity in retaliation. After he had
					captured the pirates, by whom he had been taken, having sworn that he would
					crucify them, he did so indeed; but he first ordered their throats to be cut.
						 To save them from the torture of a lingering
						death. He could never bear the thought of doing any harm to Cornelius
					Phagitas, who had dogged him in the night when he was sick and a fugitive, with
					the design of carrying him to Sylla, and from whose hands he had escaped with
					some difficulty by giving him a bribe. Philemon, his amanuensis, who had
					promised his enemies to poison him, he put to death without torture. When he was
					summoned as a witness against Publicus Clodius, his wife Pompeia's gallant, who
					was prosecuted for profanation of religious ceremonies, he declared he knew
					nothing of the affair, although his mother Aurelia, and his sister Julia, gave
					the court an exact and full account of the circumstances. And being asked why
					then he had divorced his wife? "Because," he said, "my family should not only be
					free from guilt, but even from the suspicion of it." Both in his administration and his conduct towards the vanquished party in the
					civil war, he showed a wonderful moderation and clemency. For while Pompey
					declared that he would consider those as enemies who did not take arms in
					defence of the republic, he desired it to be understood, that he should regard
					those who remained neuter as his friends. With regard to all those to whom he
					had, on Pompey's recommendation, given any command in the army, he left them at
					perfect liberty to go over to him, if they pleased. When some proposals were
					made at Ilerda 
					 Now Lerida , in
							 Catalonia . for a
					surrender, which gave rise to a free communication between the two camps, and
					Afranius and Petreius, upon a sudden change of resolu* tion, had put to the
					sword all Caesar's men who were found in the camp, he scorned to imitate the
					base treachery which they had practised against himself. On the field of
					Pharsalia, he called out to the soldiers " to spare their fellow-citizens," and
					afterwards gave permission to every man in his army to save an enemy. None of
					them, so far as appears, lost their lives but in battle, excepting only
					Afranius, Faustus, and young Lucius Caesar; and it is thought that even they
					were put to death without his consent. Afranius and Faustus had borne arms
					against him, after obtaining their pardon; and Lucius Caesar had not only in the
					most cruel manner destroyed with fire and sword his freedmen and slaves, but cut
					to pieces the wild beasts which he had prepared for the entertainment of the
					people. And finally, a little before his death, he permitted all whom he had not
					before pardoned, to return into Italy ,
					and to bear offices both civil and military. He even replaced the statues of
					Sylla and Pompey, which had been thrown down by the populace. And after this,
					whatever was devised or uttered, he chose rather to check than to punish it.
					Accordingly, having detected certain conspiracies and nocturnal assemblies, he
					went no farther than to intimate by a proclamation that he knew of them; and as
					to those who indulged themselves in the liberty of reflecting severely upon him,
					he only warned them in a public speech not to persist in their offence. He bore
					with great moderation a virulent libel written against him by Aulus Caecinna,
					and the abusive lampoons of Pitholaiis, most highly reflecting on his
					reputation.