Except on public occasions, and in the actual exercise of his office.
In publicis locis atque muneribus,
atque actionibus patrum, jura cum filiorum qui in magistratu
sunt potestatibus collata interquiescere paullulum et
connivere, etc. (Aul. Gellius, Noctes Atticae, ii. 2.).
The Lessons of the philosopher Taurus were justified by the old and memorable example of Fabius; and we may contemplate the same story in the style of Livy (xxiv. 44) and the homely idiom of Claudius Quadrigarius the annalist.