Pollio's daughter was preferred; for
nothing else but that her mother had ever continued in the same wedlock:
for Agrippa, by a divorce, had impaired the credit of his house: upon her
who was postponed, Tiberius, in consolation, bestowed for her fortune a
thousand great sestertia. [Footnote: L8300.]
As the people murmured at the severe dearth of corn, he settled grain at a
price certain to the buyer, and undertook to pay fourteenpence a measure
to the seller: neither yet would he accept the name of _Father of his
Country_, a title offered him before, and for these bounties, now again;
nay, he sharply rebuked such as styled these provisions of his, _divine
occupations_, and him, _Lord_: hence freedom of speech became cramped and
insecure, under such a Prince; one who dreaded liberty, and abhorred
flattery.
I find in the writers of those times, some of them Senators, that in the
Senate were read letters from Adgandestrius, prince of the Cattans,
undertaking to despatch Arminius, if in order to it poison were sent him;
and an answer returned, "that not by frauds and blows in the dark, but
armed and in the face of the sun, the Roman People took vengeance on their
foes.
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