What was it that so greatly amused and pleased them?
What Caelius is always writing of is mainly elections and canvassing, accusations and trials, games and shows.

Elections he treats as pure sport, as a kind of enjoyable gambling, or as a means of spiting some one whom you want to annoy.

With elections accusations were often connected: if a man were accused before his election he could not continue to stand; if condemned after it he was disqualified; here were ways in which personal spite might deprive him of success at the last moment.[201] Accusations, too were of course the best means by which an ambitious young man could come to the front.

The whole number of trials mentioned by Caelius is astonishing; sometimes there is such a complication of them as is difficult to follow.

Every one is ready to lay an accusation, without the smallest regard for truth.