not unknown to fame were brought into the orchestra.  But of all this Augustus made no account; his daughter Julia, however, proved so dissolute that she held revels and drinking bouts by night in the Forum and on the very rostra.  When at last he found this out, he was exceedingly enraged.  He had guessed before that she did not lead a right life, but refused to believe it.  For those who hold supreme power are acquainted with anything better than with their own affairs.  Their own deeds do not go undetected by their associates, but they are not fully aware of the latter’s.  In this instance [when he learned what was going on], he gave way to such violent rage that he could not keep the matter to himself, but communicated it to the senate.  As a result she was banished to the island of Pandateria, near Campania, and her mother Scribonia voluntarily was the companion of her voyage.  Of the men who enjoyed her favors Iullus Antonius, on the ground that his conduct was prompted by designs upon the monarchy, was put to death, along with others, [prominent persons].  The remainder were banished to islands. [And since there was a tribune among them he was not tried till he had completed his term of office.] Many other women, too, were accused of similar behavior, but the emperor would not permit all the suits:  he set a definite time and forbade investigation of what had occurred previous to that.  In the case of his daughter he would show no mercy, urging that he would rather have been Phoebe’s father than hers, but the rest he spared.  Now Phoebe been a freedwoman of Julia’s and the companion of her undertakings, and had already caused her own death.  For this Augustus praised her.

  [B.C. 1 (a. u. 753)]

  Gaius’ captaincy of the legions on the Ister was a peaceful period. 
  He fought no war, not because there was none but because he cultivated
  ruling in quiet and safety, and the dangers were assigned to others.

The revolt of the Armenians and the Parthians’ cooeperation with them kept Augustus sorrowful, and he was at a loss to know what to do.  His age rendered him incapable of campaigning, Tiberius (as stated) had already withdrawn, he could not venture to send any other influential man, and Gaius and Lucius were, as it happened, young and inexperienced in affairs.  Still, under the prod of necessity, he chose Gaius, gave him the proconsular authority and a wife (an act intended to increase his dignity) and assigned advisers to him.  Gaius set out and was everywhere received with marks of distinction, occupying as he did the position of the emperor’s grandson,—­one might almost say son,—­and Tiberius went to Chios and paid him court to rid himself of suspicion.  He humiliated himself and groveled at the feet not only of Gaius but of all the latter’s associates.  On his return to Syria, after no great successes won, he was wounded.

[When the barbarians heard of the campaign of Gaius, Phrataces sent to Augustus men to explain what had occurred and asked to get back his brothers on condition of accepting peace.