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These bruitings of the populace, besides that they are supported by no
certain author, may be easily refuted. For, who of common prudence (much
less Tiberius so long practised in great affairs) would to his own son,
without hearing him, present the mortal bane; with his own hands too, and
cutting off for ever all possibility of retraction? Why would he not
rather have tortured the minister of the poison? Why not inquired into the
author of the poison? Why not observed towards his only son, a son
hitherto convicted of no iniquity, that slowness and hesitation, which,
even in his proceedings against strangers, was inherent in him? But as
Sejanus was reckoned the framer of every wickedness, therefore, from the
excessive fondness of Tiberius towards him, and from the hatred of all
others towards both, things the most fabulous and direful were believed of
them; besides that common fame is ever most fraught with tales of horror
upon the departure of Princes: in truth, the plan and process of the
murder were first discovered by Apicata, wife of Sejanus, and laid open
upon the rack by Eudemus and Lygdus.
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