It is true that to one who was a rustic and a soldier the political proceedings of the capital were strange and incongruous: he spoke as ill as he commanded well, and displayed a far firmer bearing in the presence of the lances and swords of the enemey than in presense of the applause or hisses of the multitude; but his inclincations were of little moment. The hopes of which he was the object constrained him.

Vol. 3, translated by W.P.Dickson - The History of Rome 1854-6