[Trajano] I have spoken more than once of his passion for wine, by which he was, according to one Author, obliged to take the precaution of forbidding the execution of the orders, which he gave after a long lunch. His unnatural debaucheries must cover him with eternal infamy. I also venture to count among his defects his insatiable ardor for the war, the good events of which made him rise in pride, and the sinister successes of which caused him great affliction in the last years of his life. (volume IX, book XVIII, p. 44)
— JEAN-BAPTISTE-LOUIS CREVIER