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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Limes, post: 4833313, member: 101013&quot;]From Suetonius (via the excellent website of Bill Thayer):</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;He was about the average height, his body marked with spots and malodorous, his hair light blond, his features regular rather than attractive, his eyes blue and somewhat weak, his neck over thick, his belly prominent, and his legs very slender. His health was good, for though indulging in every kind of riotous excess, he was ill but three times in all during the fourteen years of his reign, and even then not enough to give up wine or any of his usual habits. He was utterly shameless in the care of his person and in his dress, always having his hair arranged in tiers of curls, and during the trip to Greece also letting it grow long and hang down behind; and he often appeared in public in a dining-robe with a handkerchief bound about his neck, ungirt and unshod.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Later in his reign:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1168831[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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