five o'clock
In any event the fellow had his ambitions . He wanted to descend into the red halls of history disguised . He might have succeeded . History is very careless and to-day barely recalls that at five o'clock on the morning succeeding his marriage to a dowdy fat girl , he treated his regiment to a drill . The fact is uninteresting and would be equally unimportant were it not for the note that it struck . Subsequently , when he leaped on the throne , he shouted that those who opposed him he would smash . `` There is no other law than mine '' ; he later announced -- a fine phrase and yet but a modern variant of Domitian 's : `` Your god and master orders it . ''