" Nor do I doubt, but there were then such who
secretly ridiculed that sort of petitions from Augustus: such policy was
however natural to that Prince, while he was but yet laying the
foundations of the Imperial power, and while the Republic and its late
laws were still fresh in the minds of men: besides, the relation was
lighter between Augustus and his wife's sons, than between a grandfather
and his grandsons. To the grant of the Quaestorship was added a seat in
the College of Pontiffs; and the first day he entered the Forum in his
manly robe, a donative of corn and money was distributed to the populace,
who exulted to behold a son of Germanicus now of age. Their joy was soon
heightened by his marriage with Julia, the daughter of Drusus. But as
these transactions were attended with public applauses; so the intended
marriage of the daughter of Sejanus with the son of Claudius was received
with popular indignation. By this alliance the nobility of the Claudian
house seemed stained; and by it Sejanus, already suspected of aspiring
views, was lifted still higher.
At the end of this year died Lucius Volusius and Sallustius Crispus; great
and eminent men.
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