" Gallus, who in his face conjectured sullen signs
of displeasure, again accosted him, and said, "by this question I did not
mean that you should do an impracticable thing, and share that power which
cannot be separated; but I meant to reason you into a confession that the
Commonwealth is but one body, and can be governed only by one soul." He
added an encomium upon Augustus, and reminded Tiberius himself of his many
victories, of the many civil employments which he had long and nobly
sustained: nor even thus could he mollify the wrath of Tiberius, who had
long hated him, for that Gallus had married Vipsania, daughter of Marcus
Agrippa, and formerly wife to Tiberius, who thence suspected that by this
match he meant to soar above the rank of a subject, and possessed too the
bold and haughty spirit of Asinius Pollio his father.
Lucius Arruntius incurred his displeasure next, by a speech not much
unlike that of Gallus: it is true, that towards him Tiberius bore no old
rancour; but Arruntius had mighty opulence, prompt parts, noble
accomplishments, with equal popularity, and hence was marked by him with a
fell eye of suspicion.
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