" Thus the accused
was upon trial condemned. For this just vengeance, and that inflicted the
year before on Caius Silanus, the cities of Asia decreed a temple to
Tiberius, and his mother, and the Senate; and obtained leave to build it.
For this concession Nero made a speech of thanks to the Senators and his
grandfather; a speech which charmed the affections of his hearers, who, as
they were full of the memory of Germanicus, fancied it was him they heard,
and him they saw. There was also in the youth himself an engaging modesty,
and a gracefulness becoming a princely person: ornaments which, by the
known hatred that threatened him from Sejanus, became still more dear and
adored.
I am aware that most of the transactions which I have already related, or
shall hereafter relate, may perhaps appear minute, and too trivial to be
remembered. But, none must compare these my annals with the writings of
those who compiled the story of the ancient Roman People. They had for
their subjects mighty wars, potent cities sacked, great kings routed and
taken captive: or if they sometimes reviewed the domestic affairs of Rome,
they there found the mutual strife and animosities of the Consuls and
Tribunes; the agrarian and frumentary laws, pushed and opposed; and the
lasting struggles between the nobles and populace.
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