He said such
was "the nobility of both, that they deserved to be supported." Nor did he
ever to himself accept any man's inheritance, but where former friendship
gave him a title. The wills of such as were strangers to him, and of such
as, from hate and prejudice to others, had appointed the Prince their
heir, he utterly rejected. But, as he relieved the honest poverty of the
virtuous, so he degraded from the Senate (or suffered to quit it of their
own accord) Vibidius Varro, Marius Nepos, Appius Appianus, Cornelius
Sylla, and Quintus Vitellius, all prodigals, and only through debauchery
indigent.
About this time Tiberius finished and consecrated what Augustus began, the
Temples of the Gods consumed by age or fire: that near the great Circus,
vowed by Aulus Posthumius the Dictator, to Bacchus, Proserpina, and Ceres.
In the same place the Temple of Flora, founded by Lucius Publicius and
Marcus Publicius while they were Aediles. The Temple of Janus, built in
the Herb Market by Caius Duillius, who first signalised the Roman power at
sea, and merited a naval triumph over the Carthaginians.
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