"There are, it is true," said he, "people who begin to visit their acquaintances about sunrise, thinking that custom an old Roman one, but I look on this as barbarous. The afternoon hours are most proper,--not earlier, however, than that one when the sun passes to the side of Jove's temple on the Capitol and begins to look slantwise on the Forum.
Vannak ugyan, akik már napfelkeltekor elkezdik ismerőseik látogatását, mondván, hogy ez ősi római szokás, ő azonban ezt barbár szokásnak tartja.