Nor did Tiberius restrain the course of these
fictions, but left them to vanish with time: hence with more bitterness
they afterwards grieved for him, as if anew snatched from them.
Honours were invented and decreed to Germanicus, various as the affections
and genius of the particular Senators who proposed them: "that his name
should be sung in the Salian hymns; curule chairs placed for him amongst
the priests of Augustus, and over these chairs oaken crowns hung; his
statue in ivory precede in the Cercensian games; none but one of the
Julian race be, in the room of Germanicus, created flamen or augur:"
triumphal arches were added; one at Rome; one upon the banks of the Rhine;
one upon Mount Amanus, in Syria; with inscriptions of his exploits, and a
testimony subjoined, "that he died for the Commonwealth:" a sepulchre at
Antioch, where his corpse was burnt; a tribunal at Epidaphne, the place
where he ended his life. The multitude of statues, the many places where
divine honours were appointed to be paid him, would not be easily
recounted. They would have also decreed him, as to one of the masters of
eloquence, a golden shield, signal in bulk as in metal; but Tiberius
offered to dedicate one himself, such as was usual and of a like size
with others; for that eloquence was not measured by fortune; and it was
sufficient glory, if he were ranked with ancient writers.
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