rs to alter theirs. But the story is not credible. This was his
regular behavior, as a matter of principle, in every case alike,
and furthermore he was attached to his son, the only one he had and
legitimate. Those that engineered his death he punished, some at once and
some later. At the time he entered the senate, delivered the appropriate
eulogy over his child, and departed homeward.

Thus perished Sejanus's victim. Tiberius took his way to the
senate-house, where he lamented him publicly, put Nero and Drusus
(children of Germanicus) in charge of the senate, and exposed the body
of Drusus upon the rostra; and Nero, being his son-in-law, pronounced
an eulogy over him. This man's death proved a cause of death to many
persons, who were taxed with being pleased at his demise. Among the
large number of people who lost their lives was Agrippina, together
with her children, the youngest excepted. Sejanus had incensed
Tiberius greatly against her, anticipating that, when she and her
children were disposed of, he might have for his spouse Livia, wife of
Drusus, for whom he entertained a passion, and might wield supreme
power, since no successor would be found for Tiberius. The latter
detested his nephew as a bastard. Many others also did he banish or
destroy for different and ever different causes, for the most part
fictitious.

Tiberius forbade those debarred from fire and water to make any will,--a
custom still observed. AElius Saturninus he brought before the senate for
trial on the charge of having recited some improper verses about him, and
the culprit having been found guilty was hurled from the Capitol. [-23-]I
might narrate many other such occurrences, if I were to go into all in
detail. But the general statement may suffice that many were slain by him
for such offences. And also this,--that he investigated carefully, case by
case, all the slighting remarks that any persons were accused of uttering
against him and then called himself all the ill names that other men
invented. Even if a person made some statement secretly and to a single
companion, he would publish this too, and actually had it entered on the
official records. Often he falsely added, from his own consciousness of
defects, what no one had even said as really spoken, in order that it
might be thought he had juster cause for his wrath. Consequently it came
to pass that he himself committed against himself all those outrages