] upon ample information, that Celer's necessities were derived from
his father. Others, who attempted the same thing, he ordered to lay their
condition before the Senate; and from an affectation of severity was thus
austere even where he acted with uprightness. Hence the rest preferred
poverty and silence to begging and relief.
The same year the Tiber, being swelled with continual rains, overflowed
the level parts of the city; and the common destruction of men and houses
followed the returning flood. Hence Asinius Callus moved "that the
Sibylline books might be consulted." Tiberius opposed it, equally
smothering all inquiries whatsoever, whether into matters human or divine.
To Ateius Capito, however, and Lucius Arruntius, was committed the care of
restraining the river within its banks. The provinces of Achaia and
Macedon, praying relief from their public burdens, were for the present
discharged of their Proconsular government, and subjected to the Emperor's
lieutenants. In the entertainment of gladiators at Rome, Drusus presided:
it was exhibited in the name of Germanicus, and his own; and at it he
manifested too much lust of blood, even of the blood of slaves: a quality
terrible to the populace; and hence his father was said to have reproved
him.
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