such a one as was to be made in way of flattery to their rulers,
while they did but counterfeit sorrow, but such as was real; while every
body grieved at his death, as if they had lost one that was near to
them. And truly such had been his easy conversation with men, that it
turned greatly to the advantage of his son among all; and, among others,
the soldiery were so peculiarly affected to him, that they reckoned
it an eligible thing, if need were, to die themselves, if he might but
attain to the government.

9. But when Tiberius had given order to Euodus to bring the children to
him the next day in the morning, he prayed to his country gods to
show him a manifest signal which of those children should come to the
government; being very desirous to leave it to his son's son, but still
depending upon what God should foreshow concerning them more than upon
his own opinion and inclination; so he made this to be the omen, that
the government should be left to him who should come to him first the
next day. When he had thus resolved within himself, he sent to his
grandson's tutor, and ordered him to bring the child to him early in the
morning, as supposing that God would permit him to be made emperor.
But God proved opposite to his designation; for while Tiberius was thus
contriving matters, and as soon as it was at all day, he bid Euodus
to call in that child which should be there ready. So he went out, and
found Caius before the door, for Tiberius was not yet come, but staid
waiting for his breakfast; for Euodus knew nothing of what his lord
intended; so he said to Caius, "Thy father calls thee," and then brought
him in. As soon as Tiberius saw Caius, and not before, he reflected on
the power of God, and how the ability of bestowing the government on
whom he would was entirely taken from him; and thence he was not able to
establish what he had intended. So he greatly lamented that his power of
establishing what he had before contrived was taken from him, and that
his grandson Tiberius was not only to lose the Roman empire by his
fatality, but his own safety also, because his preservation would now
depend upon such as would be more potent than himself, who would think
it a thing not to be borne, that a kinsman should live with them, and
so his relation would not be able to protect him; but he would be feared
and bated by him who had the supreme authority, partly on account of
his being next to the empire, and partly on account