While yet a boy, he was remarkable for his noble endowments both of body and
					mind; and as he advanced in years, they became still more conspicuous. He had a
					fine person, combining an equal mixture of majesty and grace; was very strong,
					though not tall, and somewhat corpulent. Gifted with an excellent memory, and a
					capacity for all the arts of peace and war; he was a perfect master of the use
					of arms and riding; very ready in the Latin and Greek tongues, both in verse and
					prose; and such was the facility he possessed in both, that he would harangue
					and versify extempore. Nor was he unacquainted with music, but could both sing
					and play upon the harp sweetly and scientifically. I have likewise been informed
					by many persons, that he was remarkably quick in writing short-hand, would in
					merriment and jest engage with his secretaries in the imitation of any
					hand-writing he saw, and often say, " that he was admirably qualified for
					forgery." He filled with distinction the rank of a military tribune both in Germany and
					Britain, in which he conducted himself with the utmost activity, and no less
					modesty and reputation; as appears evident from the great number of statues,
					with honourable inscriptions, erected to him in various parts of both those
					provinces. After serving in the wars, he frequented the courts of law, but with
					less assiduity than applause. About the same time, he married Arricidia, the
					daughter of Tertullus, who was only a knight, but had formerly been prefect of
					the pretorian guards. After her decease, he married Marcia Furnilla, of a very
					noble family, but afterwards divorced her, taking from her the daughter he had
					by her. Upon the expiration of his quaestorship, he was raised to the rank of
					commander of a legion, A.U.C. 820 and took the two
					strong cities of Tarichaea and Gamala, in Judaea; and having his horse killed
					under him in a battle, he mounted another, whose rider he had encountered and
					slain.