suspect some miraculous working.  The temple of Mars in the field of the same name had been struck by lightning and many locusts that flew into the very city were devoured by swallows; the peaks of the Alps seemed to totter toward one another and to send up three fiery columns; the sky in many places appeared ablaze and at the same time numerous comet stars came to view; spears darting from the north seemed to be falling upon the Roman camp; bees formed their combs about Roman altars; a statue of Victory which was in Germany, facing hostile territory, turned about toward Italy; and once an aimless battle and conflict of the soldiers occurred about the eagles in the camps, as if the barbarians had fallen upon them.

For these reasons, then, and also because ... [4]

  [A.D. 10 (a. u. 763)]

  Tiberius did not see fit to cross the Rhine, but kept quiet, watching
  to see that the barbarians should not do so.  The latter, however,
  knowing him to be present, did not venture to cross either.

Germanicus was endeared to the populace for many causes, but particularly because he interceded for various persons, and this quite as much in the presence of Augustus himself as before other justices.  Now there was a court to try a quaestor who was charged with murder, and, as Germanicus was going to be his advocate, his accuser became alarmed lest he might consequently meet with defeat before those judges in whose presence such cases were wont to be tried, and he desired to have Augustus preside.  Yet his efforts were vain, for he did not win his case.

 ... holding [it] after his praetorship.

[A.D. 11 (a. u. 764)]

[-25-]But in the following season the temple of Concord was dedicated by Tiberius and both his name and that of Drusus, his dead brother, were inscribed upon it.  In the consulship of Marcus AEmilius with Statilius Taurus Tiberius and Germanicus acting as proconsul invaded Celtica and overran some parts of it.  They did not conquer, however, in any battle (since no one came to close quarters with them), and did not reduce any tribe.  For in their fear of falling victims to a new disaster they advanced not far beyond the Rhine, but after remaining there until late autumn and celebrating the birthday of Augustus, on which they held a kind of horse-race under the direction of the centurions, they returned.

At Rome Drusus Caesar, the son of Tiberius, became quaestor, and sixteen praetors held office because that number became candidates for the position and Augustus, mindful of his condition, was unwilling to offend any of them.  The same did not hold true, however, of the years immediately following, but the number remained twelve for a long period.  Besides these proceedings the seers were forbidden to prophesy in private to any one, or regarding death even if there should be others with them.  Yet in this matter Augustus had no personal feeling, so that by