" The players therefore were driven
out of Italy.
The same year carried off one of the twins of Drusus, and thence afflicted
the Emperor with fresh woe; nor with less for the death of a particular
friend. It was Lucillius Longus, the inseparable companion of all the
traverses of his fortune smiling or sad; and, of all the Senators, the
only one who accompanied him in his retirement at Rhodes. For this reason,
though but a new man, the Senate decreed him a public funeral; and a
statue to be placed, at the expense of the Treasury, in the square of
Augustus. For by the Senate, even yet, all affairs were transacted;
insomuch that Lucillius Capito, the Emperor's Comptroller in Asia, was, at
the accusation of the Province, brought upon his defence before them: the
Emperor too upon this occasion protested with great earnestness, "that
from him Lucillius had no authority but over his slaves, and in collecting
his domestic rents: that if he had usurped the jurisdiction of Praetor,
and employed military force, he had so far violated his orders; they
should therefore hear the allegations of the Province.
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