Philip, active and strong, and famed for pleading causes, while returning from his employment about the eighth hour, and now of a great age, complaining that the Carinae were too far distant from the forum; spied, as they say, a person clean shaven in a barber 's empty shed, composedly paring his own nails with a knife." Demetrius,"[ says he,]( this slave dexterously received his master 's orders,)" go inquire, and bring me word from what house, who he is, of what fortune, who is his father, or who is his patron. " He goes, returns, and relates, that" he is by name, Vulteius Maena, an auctioneer, of small fortune, of a character perfectly unexceptionable, that he could upon occasion ply busily, and take his ease, and get, and spend; delighting in humble companions and a settled dwelling, and( after business ended) in the shows, and the Campus Martius." 