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According to Plutarch, when Caesar and Cato were standing and debating in the Senate chamber, a messenger showed up and gave Caesar a small note. Cato was suspicious about the note and wanted it to be read out to the assembled senators. Caesar handed the note to Cato, and when he opened the note, he discovered it contained a graphic love letter from Servilia (his maternal half-sister), detailing her passionate desires for Caesar. Embarrassed, Cato read the it aloud, then threw the letter back at Caesar, saying, "Take it, thou sot," before continuing his speech as if nothing had occurred.
January - Dolabella: "the queen's rival, the inner partner of the royal couch”
February - Licinius Calvus: "Whate'er Bithynia had, and Caesar's paramour."
March - Bibulus: "the queen of Bithynia”, "of yore he was enamoured of a king, but now of a king's estate."
April - Cicero: "No more of that, pray, for it is well known what he gave you, and what you gave him in turn."
May - Caesar’s soldiers: “Caesar subdued Gaul, Nicomedes subdued Caesar”
June - A random Octavius: greeted Pompey as "king" and Caesar as "queen."
July - The elder Curio: "the brothel of Nicomedes and the stew of Bithynia."
August - Gaius Memmius: said that he acted as cup-bearer to Nicomedes with the rest of his wantons at a large dinner-party, and that among the guests were some merchants from Rome.
September - Cicero: said that Caesar was led by the king's attendants to the royal apartments, that he lay on a golden couch arrayed in purple, and that the virginity of this son of Venus was lost in Bithynia
October - Caesar’s soldiers: "All the Gauls did Caesar vanquish, Nicomedes vanquished him; / Lo! now Caesar rides in triumph, victor over all the Gauls, / Nicomedes does not triumph, who subdued the conqueror."
November - The elder Curio: Every woman’s husband and every man’s wife.”
December - Cicero: “I wish it may be true about the Queen and that Caesar of hers”