Germanicus was intent upon seeing other wonders: the chief were; the
effigies of Memnon, a colossus of stone, yielding when struck by the solar
rays, a vocal sound; the Pyramids rising, like mountains, amongst rolling
and almost impassable waves of sand; monuments these of the emulation and
opulency of Egyptian kings; the artificial lake, a receptacle of the
overflowing Nile; and elsewhere abysses of such immense depth, that those,
who tried, could never fathom. Thence he proceeded to Elephantina and
Syene, two islands, formerly frontiers of the Roman empire, which is now
widened to the Red Sea.
Whilst Germanicus spent this summer in several provinces, Drusus was
sowing feuds amongst the Germans, and thence reaped no light renown; and,
as the power of Maroboduus was already broken, he engaged them to persist
and complete his ruin. Amongst the Gotones was a young man of quality, his
name Catualda, a fugitive long since from the violence of Maroboduus, but
now in his distress, resolved on revenge: hence with a stout band, he
entered the borders of the Marcomannians, and corrupting their chiefs into
his alliance, stormed the regal palace, and the castle situate near it.
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