1From there he went to Rome to stand for magistracies and joined to himself in marriage Domitia Decidiana, a woman of brilliant birth; 1and that marriage brought distinction and strength to him as he strove for higher things. 1And they lived in wonderful harmony, through mutual affection and each putting the other first, except that in a good wife there is as much more praise as there is more blame in a bad one. 2The lot for the quaestorship gave him Asia as his province and Salvius Titianus as proconsul, and he was corrupted by neither, although the province was rich and ready for wrongdoers, and the proconsul, inclined to every kind of greed, would have been willing to buy, with any amount of indulgence, a mutual concealment of misconduct.
3There he was blessed with a daughter, as both a support and a consolation; 3for a son born earlier he soon lost. 3Then he passed the interval between his quaestorship and his tribunate of the plebs, and even the year of his tribunate itself, in quiet and inactivity, understanding the times under Nero, in which inertia passed for wisdom. 4His praetorship had the same tenor and the same silence; 4for no judicial duties had fallen to him. 4The games and the empty show of office he managed midway between economy and abundance, far from extravagance, yet nearer to good repute. 5Then, chosen by Galba to make an inventory of the gifts in the temples, by the most careful search he ensured that the state should feel the sacrilege of no one but Nero.