"The lot of princes," he remarked, "was very miserable, for no one-believed them
					when they discovered a conspiracy, until they were murdered." When he had
					leisure, he amused himself with dice, even on days that were not festivals, and
					in the morning. He went to the bath early, and made a plentiful dinner, insomuch
					that he seldom ate more at supper than a .Martian apple, This favourite apple, mentioned by Columella and Pliny, took its name from
						C. Matius, a Roman knight, and friend of Augustus, who first introduced it.
						Pliny tells us that Matius was also the first who brought into vogue the
						practice of clipping groves. to which he added a draught of wine, out
					of a small flask. He gave frequent and splendid entertainments, but they were
					soon over, for he never prolonged them after sunset, and indulged in no revel
					after. For, till bed-time, he did nothing else but walk by himself in
					private. He was insatiable in his lusts, calling frequent commerce with women, as if it
					was a sort of exercise, κλινοπάλην ,
						 bed-wrestling , and it was reported that he swam about in
					company with the lowest prostitutes. His brother's daughter Julia, the daughter of Titus. was offered him in marriage when she
					was a virgin; but being at that time enamoured of Domitia, he obstinately
					refused her. Yet not long afterwards, when she was given to another, he was
					ready enough to debauch her, and that even while Titus was living. But after she
					had lost both her father and her husband, he loved her most passionately, and
					without disguise; insomuch that he was the occasion of her death, by obliging
					her to procure a miscarriage when she was with child by him.