His name was Mark Antony.

Antony was born in Rome, of a very distinguished family, but his father died when he was very young, and being left subsequently much to himself, he became a very wild and dissolute young man.

He wasted the property which his father had left him in folly and vice; and then going on desperately in the same career, he soon incurred enormous debts, and involved himself, in consequence, in inextricable difficulties.

His creditors continually harassed him with importunities for money, and with suits at law to compel payments which he had no means of making.

He was likewise incessantly pursued by the hostility of the many enemies that he had made in the city by his violence and his crimes.