their bodies on the Stairs she withdrew and composed a statement regarding the death of Drusus, directed against Livilla, the latter’s wife, who had been the cause of a quarrel between herself and her husband, resulting in their separation.  This document she forwarded to Tiberius and then committed suicide.  Thus the statement came to the hands of Tiberius, and when he had obtained proof of the information he put to death Livilla and all others therein mentioned.  I have, indeed, heard that he spared her out of regard for her mother Antonia, and that Antonia herself voluntarily destroyed her daughter by starving her.  At any rate, that was later.

[-12-] At this time a great uproar ensued in the City.  The populace slew any one it saw of those who had possessed great influence with Sejanus and relying on him had committed acts of insolence.  The soldiers, too, in irritation because they had been suspected of friendliness toward Sejanus and because the nightwatchmen had been preferred before them in the confidence of the emperor, proceeded to burn and plunder,—­and this in spite of the fact that all officials were guarding the entire city in accordance with the injunction of Tiberius.

Not even the senate was quiet, but such members of it as had paid court to Sejanus were greatly disturbed by dread of reprisals; and those who had accused or borne witness against any persons were filled with fear by the prevailing suspicion that they had destroyed their victims out of regard for the minister instead of for Tiberius.  Very small indeed was the courageous element, which was unhampered by these terrors and expected that Tiberius would become milder.  For as usually happens, they laid the responsibility for their previous misfortunes upon the dead man and charged the emperor with few or none of them.  Of the most of this unjust treatment, they said, he had been ignorant, and he had been forced into the rest against his will.  Privately this was the disposition of the various classes; publicly they voted, as if they had cast off some tyranny, not to hold any mourning over the deceased and to have a statue of Liberty erected in the Forum; also a festival was to be celebrated under the auspices of all the magistrates and priests,—­as had never before occurred; and the day on which he died was to be made renowned by annual horse-races and slaughters of wild beasts, directed by those appointed to the four priesthoods and by the members of the Sodality of Augustus.  This, too, had never before been done.  To celebrate the ruin of the man whom they by the excess and novelty of their honors had led to destruction they voted solemnities that were not customary even for the gods.  They comprehended so clearly that it was chiefly these honors which had bereft him of his senses that they at once forbade explicitly the giving of excessive marks of esteem to any one, as also the taking of oaths in the name of any one other than the emperor.  Yet though they passed