"At last it came about by the will of the gods that I was master in the house, and I had the real master under my thumb then.

What is there left to tell?
I was made co-heir with Caesar and came into a Senator's fortune.

But nobody's ever satisfied with what he's got, so I embarked in business.

I won't keep you long in suspense; I built five ships and loaded them with wine--worth its weight in gold, it was then--and sent them to Rome.

You'd think I'd ordered it so, for every last one of them foundered; it's a fact, no fairy tale about it, and Neptune swallowed thirty million sesterces in one day! You don't think I lost my pep, do you?
By Hercules, no! That was only an appetizer for me, just as if nothing at all had happened.