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Statura fuit procera, uultu modesto ruborisque pleno, grandibus oculis, uerum acie hebetiore; praeterea pulcher ac decens, maxime in iuuenta, et quidem toto corpore exceptis pedibus, quorum digitos restrictiores habebat; postea caluitio quoque deformis et obesitate uentris et crurum gracilitate, quae tamen ei ualitudine longa remacruerant. [2] commendari se uerecundia oris adeo sentiebat, ut apud senatum sic quondam iactauerit: 'usque adhoc certe et animum meum probastis et uultum.' caluitio ita offendebatur, ut in contumeliam suam traheret, si cui alii ioco uel iurgio obiectaretur; quamuis libello, quem de cura capillorum ad amicum edidit, haec etiam, simul illum seque consolans, inseruerit:

'οὐχ ὁράᾳς, οἷος κἀγὼ καλός τε μέγας τε; eadem me tamen manent capillorum fata, et forti animo fero comam in adulescentia senescentem. scias nec gratius quicquam decore nec breuius.'

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