109. Avidio Cassio Syriacas legiones dedi luxuria
diffluentes et Daphnicis moribus. These are the words of
the emperor Marcus Antoninus, in an original letter
preserved by his biographer in Hist. August. p. 41 [Vulcat.
Gallic. in Vita Avid. Cass. c. 6]. Cassius dismissed or
punished every soldier who was seen at Daphne.