They blamed Marcellus's proceedings as being invidious for Rome, because he had led not only men, but also gods as captives in his triumph, and also because the people, who before this were accustomed either to fight or to till the ground, and were ignorant of luxury and indolent pleasures, like the Herakles of Euripides, "Unpolished, rough, but skilled in useful arts," were made by Marcellus into idle, babbling connoisseurs of the fine arts, and wasted the greater part of the day in talk about them.
