Legatio Ad Gaium

At all events it was not long before Caius-who was [*](So Virgil says— Fama malum quo non aliucl velocius ullum— Æn. iv. 174. )

now looked upon as a saviour and benefactor, and who was expected to shower down some fresh and everlasting springs of benefits upon all Asia and Europe, so as to endow the inhabitants with inalienable happiness and prosperity, both separately to each individual and generally to the whole state-began, as the proverb has it, at home, and changed into a ferocity of disposition, or, I should rather say, displayed the savageness which he had previously overshadowed by pretence and hypocrisy;