To proceed; for this whole year there was such an incessant torrent of
accusations, that even during the solemnity of the Latin festival, when
Drusus for his inauguration, as Governor of Rome, had ascended the
Tribunal, he was accosted by Calpurnius Salvianus with a charge against
Sextus Marius: a proceeding openly resented by the Emperor, and thence
Salvianus was banished. The city of Cyzicus was next accused, "of not
observing the established worship of the deified Augustus;" with
additional crimes, "of violences committed upon some Roman citizens." Thus
that city lost her liberties; which by her behaviour during the
Mithridatic war, she had purchased; having in it sustained a siege; and as
much by her own bravery, as by the aid of Lucullus, repulsed the king, But
Fonteius Capito, who had as Proconsul governed Asia, was acquitted, upon
proof that the crimes brought against him by Vibius Serenus were forged:
and yet the forgery drew no penalty upon Serenus: nay, the public hate
rendered him the more secure: for, every accuser, the more eager and
incessant he was, the more sacred and inviolable he became: the sorry and
impotent were surrendered to chastisement.
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