The battalion
called after the name of the Junii was now, by the equestrian order,
entitled the battalion of Germanicus, and a rule made that, on every
fifteenth of July, these troops should follow, as their standard, the
effigies of Germanicus: of these honours many continue; some were
instantly omitted, or by time are utterly obliterated.
In the height of this public sorrow, Livia, sister to Germanicus, and
married to Drusus, was delivered of male twins: an event even in middling
families, rare and acceptable, and to Tiberius such mighty matter of joy,
that he could not refrain boasting to the fathers, "that to no Roman of
the same eminence, before him, were never two children born at a birth:"
for to his own glory he turned all things, even things fortuitous. But to
the people, at such a sad conjuncture, it brought fresh anguish; as they
feared that the family of Drusus thus increased, would press heavy upon
that of Germanicus.
The same year the lubricity of women was by the Senate restrained with
severe laws; and it was provided, "that no woman should become venal, if
her father, grandfather or husband, were Roman knights.
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