Characters summed up in five quotes: Nymphidius Sabinus

1) The Prefect could deflate the cheerful atmosphere of a room merely by entering it

2) Then he marched out, for Sabinus never merely strolled or ambled, he moved as if permanently under the watch of a cudgel-happy centurion

3) Nymphidius Sabinus was a man possessed of the normal male desires. Where Sabinus parted company with normality was in his superior sensibility that he could overcome such urges.

4) The delicate boy, who had been such a worry to his mother and such a disappointment to his grandfather, returned from the legions altogether different and about as sensitive as a wall.

5) He would not succumb: never lose his judgement, his reason to the machinations of women.