About the same time Asia and Achaia were alarmed by a prevalent
but short-lived rumour that Drusus, the son of
Germanicus, had been seen
in the Cyclades and subsequently on the mainland.
There was indeed a young
man of much the same age, whom some of the emperor's
freedmen pretended
to recognise, and to whom they attached themselves
with a treacherous intent.
The renown of the name attracted the ignorant, and the
Greek mind eagerly
fastens on what is new and marvellous. |