For herself;
while her husband's hopes were yet plausible, she professed "she would
accompany his fortune, whatever it were, and, if he fell, fall with him."
But when by the secret solicitations of Livia, she had secured her own
pardon, she began by degrees to drop her husband, and to make a separate
defence. After this fatal warning, he doubted whether he should make any
further efforts; but, by the advice of his sons, fortifying his mind, he
again entered the Senate: there he found the prosecution renewed, suffered
the declared indignation of the Fathers, and saw all things cross and
terrible; but nothing so much daunted him as to behold Tiberius, without
mercy, without wrath, close, dark, unmovable, and bent against every
access of tenderness. When he was brought home, as if he were preparing
for his further defence the next day, he wrote somewhat, which he sealed
and delivered to his freedman: he then washed and anointed, and took the
usual care of his person. Late in the night, his wife leaving the chamber,
he ordered the door to be shut; and was found, at break of day, with his
throat cut, his sword lying by him.
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