Already a camp
for the guards was formed, by the pleasure and authority of the captain:
into whose hands the soldiers were delivered: in the theatre of Pompey his
statue was beheld: in his grandchildren would be mixed the blood of the
Drusi with that of Sejanus. After all this what remained but to supplicate
his modesty to rest contented." Nor was it rarely that he uttered these
disgusts, nor to a few; besides, his wife being debauched, all his secrets
were betrayed.
Sejanus therefore judging it time to despatch, chose such a poison as by
operating gradually, might preserve the appearances of a casual disease.
This was administered to Drusus by Lygdus the eunuch, as, eight years
after, was learnt. Now during all the days of his illness, Tiberius
disclosed no symptoms of anguish (perhaps from ostentation of a firmness
of spirit) nay, when he had expired, and while he was yet unburied, he
entered the Senate; and finding the Consuls placed upon a common seat, as
a testimony of their grief; he admonished them of their dignity and
station: and as the Senators burst into tears, he smothered his rising
sighs, and, by a speech uttered without hesitation, animated them.
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