with Gallus.  And in order to assure the two classes still more fully how he felt toward both of them he not long after asked the senate that Macro and some military tribunes be deemed sufficient to conduct him to the senate-chamber.  He had no need of those persons, for he had no idea of ever entering the city again, but what he wanted was to display his hatred of the senators and show the latter the friendliness of the soldiers.  The senators actually granted this request.  However, they attached to the decree a clause that the escort should be searched on entering to make sure that no one had a dagger hidden beneath his arm.—­This resolution was passed in the following year.

[-19-] At this time he spared among some others who had been intimate with Sejanus Lucius Caesianus,[12] a praetor, and Marcus Terentius, a knight.  He overlooked the behavior of the former, who at the Floralia to ridicule Tiberius had had everything up to midnight done by baldheaded men (because the emperor himself was also baldheaded) and had furnished light to those leaving the theatre by the hands of five thousand boys with shaven pates.  Tiberius was so far from becoming angry at him that he pretended not to have heard about it at all, though all baldheaded persons were from then on called Caesiani, after this man.  Terentius he spared because when on trial for his friendship with Sejanus he not only did not deny it but affirmed that he had worked for him and paid court to him to the greatest possible extent for the reason that the minister was so highly honored by Tiberius himself.  “Consequently,” he said, “if the emperor did rightly in having such a friend, neither have I done any wrong:  and if my sovereign, who knows all things accurately, erred, what wonder is it that I shared his deception?  Our duty is to cherish all whom he honors without concerning ourselves overmuch about the kind of men they are, but making one thing determine our friendship for them,—­the fact that they please the emperor.”  The senate for these reasons acquitted him and in addition rebuked his accusers.  Tiberius concurred with them.  When Piso, the praefectus urbi, died, he honored him with a public funeral,—­a distinction granted also to others.  In his place he chose Lucius Lamia, whom he had long ago put in charge of Syria[13] and was keeping at Rome.  He took similar action, too, in the case of many others, really caring nothing at all for them, but making an outward show of honoring them.—­Meantime Vitrasius Pollio, governor of Egypt died, and he entrusted the province for a time to one Hiberus, a Caesarian.

[A.D. 33 (a. u. 786)]