Thus
the deified Julius, upon the loss of an only daughter; thus the deified
Augustus, upon the hasty death of his grandsons, had both vanquished their
sorrow. More ancient examples were unnecessary; how often the Roman People
sustained with constancy the slaughter of their armies, the death of their
generals, and entire destruction of their noblest families: Princes were
mortal; the Commonwealth was eternal: they should therefore resume their
several vocations." And because the Megalesian games were at hand, he
added, "that they should even apply to the usual festivities."
The vacation ended, public affairs were resumed; Drusus departed for the
army in Illyricum, and the minds of all men were bent upon seeing
vengeance done upon Piso. They repeated their resentments, that while he
wandered over the delightful countries of Asia and Greece, he was
stifling, by contumacious and deceitful delays, the evidences of his
crimes; for it was bruited abroad, that Martina, she who was famous for
poisonings, and sent, as I have above related, by Cneius Sentius towards
Rome, was suddenly dead at Brundusium; that poison lay concealed in a knot
of her hair, but upon her body were found no symptoms of self-murder.
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