en off by thee, and that earth would be
happy, and I happy also." Now Tiberius took these to be truly Agrippa's
words, and bearing a grudge withal at Agrippa, because, when he had
commanded him to pay his respects to Tiberius, his grandson, and the son
of Drusus, Agrippa had not paid him that respect, but had disobeyed his
commands, and transferred all his regard to Caius; he said to Macro,
"Bind this man." But Macro, not distinctly knowing which of them it
was whom he bid him bind, and not expecting that he would have any such
thing done to Agrippa, he forbore, and came to ask more distinctly what
it was that he said. But when Caesar had gone round the hippodrome, he
found Agrippa standing: "For certain," said he, "Macro, this is the man
I meant to have bound;" and when he still asked, "Which of these is to
be bound?" he said "Agrippa." Upon which Agrippa betook himself to make
supplication for himself, putting him in mind of his son, with whom he
was brought up, and of Tiberius [his grandson] whom he had educated;
but all to no purpose; for they led him about bound even in his purple
garments. It was also very hot weather, and they had but little wine to
their meal, so that he was very thirsty; he was also in a sort of agony,
and took this treatment of him heinously: as he therefore saw one of
Caius's slaves, whose name was Thaumastus, carrying some water in a
vessel, he desired that he would let him drink; so the servant gave him
some water to drink, and he drank heartily, and said, "O thou boy! this
service of thine to me will be for thy advantage; for if I once get
clear of these my bonds, I will soon procure thee thy freedom of Caius
who has not been wanting to minister to me now I am in bonds, in the
same manner as when I was in my former state and dignity." Nor did he
deceive him in what he promised him, but made him amends for what he had
now done; for when afterward Agrippa was come to the kingdom, he took
particular care of Thaumastus, and got him his liberty from Caius, and
made him the steward over his own estate; and when he died, he left him
to Agrippa his son, and to Bernice his daughter, to minister to them
in the same capacity. The man also grew old in that honorable post, and
therein died. But all this happened a good while later.

7. Now Agrippa stood in his bonds before the royal palace, and leaned on
a certain tree for grief, with many others, who were in bonds also; and
as a certain bird sat upon t