into the very city were devoured by swallows;
the peaks of the Alps seemed to totter toward one another and to send up
three fiery columns; the sky in many places appeared ablaze and at the
same time numerous comet stars came to view; spears darting from the
north seemed to be falling upon the Roman camp; bees formed their combs
about Roman altars; a statue of Victory which was in Germany, facing
hostile territory, turned about toward Italy; and once an aimless battle
and conflict of the soldiers occurred about the eagles in the camps, as
if the barbarians had fallen upon them.

For these reasons, then, and also because ... [4]

[A.D. 10 (_a. u._ 763)]

Tiberius did not see fit to cross the Rhine, but kept quiet, watching
to see that the barbarians should not do so. The latter, however,
knowing him to be present, did not venture to cross either.

Germanicus was endeared to the populace for many causes, but particularly
because he interceded for various persons, and this quite as
much in the presence of Augustus himself as before other justices. Now
there was a court to try a quaestor who was charged with murder,
and, as Germanicus was going to be his advocate, his accuser became
alarmed lest he might consequently meet with defeat before those
judges in whose presence such cases were wont to be tried, and he
desired to have Augustus preside. Yet his efforts were vain, for he
did not win his case.

... holding [it] after his praetorship.

[A.D. 11 (_a. u._ 764)]

[-25-]But in the following season the temple of Concord was dedicated by
Tiberius and both his name and that of Drusus, his dead brother, were
inscribed upon it. In the consulship of Marcus AEmilius with Statilius
Taurus Tiberius and Germanicus acting as proconsul invaded Celtica and
overran some parts of it. They did not conquer, however, in any battle
(since no one came to close quarters with them), and did not reduce
any tribe. For in their fear of falling victims to a new disaster they
advanced not far beyond the Rhine, but after remaining there until late
autumn and celebrating the birthday of Augustus, on which they held a
kind of horse-race under the direction of the centurions, they returned.

At Rome Drusus Caesar, the son of Tiberius, became quaestor, and sixteen
praetors held office because that number became candidates for the
position and Augustus, mindful of his condition, was unwilling to
offend any of them. The