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Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 2:24 PM
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. The story
indeed, which they no
sooner invented than believed, was that Drusus had
escaped from custody,
and was on his way to the armies of his father, with
the design of invading
Egypt or Syria. And he was now drawing to himself a
multitude of young
men and much popular enthusiasm, enjoying the present
and cherishing idle
hopes of the future, when Poppaeus Sabinus heard of
the affair. At the
time he was chiefly occupied with Macedonia, but he
also had the charge
of Achaia. So, to forestall the danger, let the story
be true or false,
he hurried by the bays of Torone and Thermae, then
passed on to Euboea,
an island of the Aegaean, to Piraeus, on the coast of
Attica, thence to
the shores of Corinth and the narrow Isthmus, and
having arrived by the
other sea at Nicopolis, a Roman colony, he there at
last ascertained that
the man, when skilfully questioned, had said that he
was the son of Marcus
Silanus, and that, after the dispersion of a number of
his followers' he
had embarked on a vessel, intending, it seemed, to go
to Italy. Sabinus
sent this account to Tiberius, and of the origin and
issue of the affair
nothing more is known to me.
At the close of the year a long growing feud
between the consuls
broke out. Trio, a reckless man in incurring enmities
and a practised lawyer,
had indirectly censured Regulus as having been
half-hearted in crushing
the satellites of Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. Regulus, who, unless he was
provoked, loved
quietness, not only repulsed his colleague's attack,
but was for dragging
him to trial as a guilty accomplice in the conspiracy.
And though many
of the senators implored them to compose a quarrel
likely to end fatally,
they continued their enmity and their mutual menaces
till they retired
from office.
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