Drusus came as far as Terracina, with Claudius the brother of
Germanicus, and those of his children who had been left at Rome. The
Consuls Marcus Valerius and Marcus Aurelius (just then entered upon their
office), the Senate, and great part of the people, filled the road; a
scattered procession, each walking and weeping his own way: in this
mourning, flattery had no share; for all knew how real was the joy, how
hollow the grief, of Tiberius for the death of Germanicus.
Tiberius and Livia avoided appearing abroad: public lamentation they
thought below their grandeur; or perhaps they apprehended that their
countenances, examined by all eyes, might show deceitful hearts. That
Antonia, mother to the deceased, bore any part in the funeral, I do not
find either in the historians or in the city journals: though, besides
Agrippina, and Drusus, and Claudius, his other relations are likewise
there recorded by name: whether by sickness she was prevented; or whether
her soul vanquished by sorrow, could not bear the representation of such a
mighty calamity. I would rather believe her constrained by Tiberius and
Livia, who left not the palace; and affecting equal affliction with her,
would have it seem that, by the example of the mother, the grandmother too
and uncle were detained.
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