He was tall in stature, his face modest, and very ruddy; he had large eyes, but
					was dim-sighted; naturally graceful in his person, particularly in his youth,
					excepting only that his toes were bent somewhat inward, he was at last
					disfigured by baldness, corpulence, and the slenderness of his legs, which were
					reduced by a long illness. He was so sensible how much the modesty of his
					countenance recommended him, that he once made this boast to the senate, "Thus
					far you have approved both of my disposition and my countenance." His baldness
					so much annoyed him, that he considered it an affront to himself, if any other
					person was reproached with it, either in jest or in earnest; though in a small
					tract he published, addressed to a friend, "concerning the preservation -of the
					hair," he uses for their mutual consolation the words following: οὐκ ὡράασ οἷοσ κἀγὼ κάλοσ τε μέγας 
					 Seest thou my graceful mien, my stately
						form? "and yet the fate of my hair awaits me; however. I bear
					with fortitude this loss of my hair while I am still young. Remember that
					nothing is more fascinating than beauty, but nothing of shorter duration."