It was also afterwards found, that by this
abstruseness and counterfeit irresolution he meant to penetrate into the
designs and inclinations of the great men: for his jealous spirit
construed all their words, all their looks, into crimes; and stored them
up in his heart against a day of vengeance.
When he first met the Senate, he would bear no other business to be
transacted but that about the funeral of Augustus. His last will was
brought in by the Vestal Virgins: in it Tiberius and Livia were appointed
his heirs, Livia adopted into the Julian family, and dignified with the
name of Augusta: into the next and second degree of heirship he adopted
his grandchildren and their children; and in the third degree he named the
great men of Rome, most of them hated by him, but out of vainglory he
named them, and for future renown. His legacies were not beyond the usual
bounds; only he left to the Roman people four hundred thousand great
sesterces, [Footnote: L362,500.] to the populace or common sort, thirty-
five thousand; to every common soldier of the Praetorian Guards, a
thousand small sesterces, [Footnote: L8, 6s.
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