" His body, before its commitment to the
pile, was exhibited naked in the Forum of Antioch, the place where the
pile was erected: whether it bore the marks of poison, remained undecided:
for, people as they were divided in their affections, as they pitied
Germanicus, and presumed the guilt of Piso, or were partial to him, gave
opposite accounts.
It was next debated amongst the legates of the legions and the other
senators there, to whom should be committed the administration of Syria:
and after the faint effort of others, it was long disputed between Vibius
Marsus and Cneius Sentius: Marsus at last yielded to Sentius, the older
man and the more vehement competitor. By him one Martina, infamous in that
province for practices in poisoning, and a close confidant of Plancina,
was sent to Rome, at the suit of Vitellius, Veranius, and others, who were
preparing criminal articles against Piso and Plancina, as against persons
evidently guilty.
Agrippina, though overwhelmed with sorrow, and her body indisposed, yet
impatient of all delays to her revenge, embarked with the ashes of
Germanicus, and her children; attended with universal commiseration, "that
a lady, in quality a princess, wont to be beheld in her late splendid
wedlock with applauses and adorations, was now seen bearing in her bosom
her husband's funeral urn, uncertain of vengeance for him and fearful for
herself; unfortunate in her fruitfulness, and from so many children
obnoxious to so many blows of fortune.
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