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Updated: July 13, 2025
They were a disreputable enough gang of unkempt, unshaven, half-clothed wretches: Gauls and Germans with fair hair and giant physiques; dark-haired Syrians; black-skinned Africans, all panting and groaning, clanking their chains, and cursing softly at the two sullen overseers, who, with heavy-loaded whips, were literally driving them down into the road. Again Drusus spoke.
Agias was certainly an accomplice in the plot against Drusus, sent to the house at an unseasonable hour, on some dark errand. The porter had freely protested this belief to Falto and his court, and to support his indictment produced the captured dagger, the sure sign of a would-be murderer.
When you have read as much as I have," this with an air of utter weariness, "you will realize the futility of philosophic study." "Eho!" remarked Drusus again. "So you would have me feel that I am turning my back on nothing very great, after all?" "And so I mean." "Seriously?" "I am serious, Quintus." And indeed Cornelia was.
Be thou not offended because I levelled the Caesar in thee down to the denarii. Thou seest I did but use the name to try these fine fledglings of our old Rome. Come, my Drusus, come!" He took up the box again and rattled the dice merrily. "Here, for what sum thou wilt, let us measure fortunes." The manner was frank, cordial, winsome. Drusus melted in a moment.
But Agias, whose eyes had been straining out into the western harbour, cried, "Help! A galley is coming!" "Imperator," said Drusus, "you must wait for this galley." The foe were almost on them. "Are you mad?" was the exclamation of the general. "I can hold them off until it is safe to swim," and Drusus had covered himself behind a coping in the masonry. Cæsar measured the distance with his eye.
"You know, my dear," the worthy woman had concluded, "that since it has seemed necessary to break off with Drusus, a marriage with Lucius would be at once recommended by your father's will, and in many ways highly desirable." Only a very few days later Lucius Ahenobarbus received a message bidding him come to see his father at the family palace on the Palatine.
All this took time time which Drusus longed to be spending with Cornelia in shady and breezy Præneste, miles from unhealthy, half-parched Rome. Drusus had sent Agias ahead to Cornelia, as soon as the poor boy had recovered in the least from his brutal scourging.
They were not always inhabitants of the city to the office of which they had been nominated, as has been shown in the cases of Drusus and Germanicus Caesar, and Nero and Drusus the sons of Germanicus, nominated or elected quinquennales at Praeneste, and represented in both cases by praefects appointed by them.
For, Drusus impatient of a rival, and in his temper inflammable, had upon some occasional contest, shaken his fist at Sejanus, and, as he prepared to resist, given him a blow on the face.
Sebastian, which is flanked by two small towers, and just within which is the old triumphal arch of Drusus, a sturdy construction, much dilapidated as regards its architectural beauty, but rendered far more picturesque than it could have been in its best days by a crown of verdure on its head.
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