The Andromeda Strain
Suetonius described it thus:
He was of remarkable beauty and was full of fascination for every phase of his life, although he was indifferent to any form of personal attention; he was so negligent in his hair care that he hastily entrusted himself to various hairdressers and with regard to his beard he now had it cut, now he had it shaved and at the same time he either read something or even wrote.
His face was, both when he spoke and when he was silent, so calm and serene, that a noble of the Gauls confessed to his followers that, when he crossed the Alps, he made himself put near him, pretending to have a conversation, with the intending to drop him off a precipice, he was unable and was paralyzed by his sight.
He had bright and bright eyes, in which he wanted to make believe that there was a kind of divine vigor and he felt pleasure if someone, observing him attentively with more energy, lowered his gaze as if blinded by the brightness of the sun; in old age, however, his left eye saw less; his teeth were sparse, small and coarse; slightly wavy and blond hair; the joined eyebrows; medium-sized ears; the nose protruding above and curved below; the complexion, between brown and white.
His stature was short - which, however, his freedman and historian Giulio Marato says he was five feet and three-quarters - but he was so proportioned in his limbs that it concealed it, if not by comparison with a taller person who was standing. standing next to him, to realize it.