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which there "were added numerous other evils, such as the 

 want of money to pay his soldiers ; the revolt of Illyria ; •* 

 the necessity of levying the slaves ; the sad deficiency of 

 young men;^ the pestilence that raged in the City;-^ the 

 famine in Italy ; the design which he had formed of putting 

 an end to his life, and the fast of four days, which brought 

 him within a hair's breadth of death. And then, added to 

 all this, the slaughter of Varus;-' the base slanders-* whis- 

 pered against his authority ; the rejection of Posthumius 

 Agrippa, after his adoption,-^ and the regret to which Au- 

 gustus was a prey after his banishment ; ^"^ the suspicions too 

 respecting Fabius, to the effect that he had betrayed his se- 

 crets ; and then, last of all, the machinations of his wife and 

 of Tiberius, the thoughts of which occupied his last moments. 

 In fine, this same god,^^ who was raised to heaven, I am at a 



iEmiliiis Paulus. She fully Laherited the vices of her mother. For an 

 adulterous intercourse vriih. D. Silanus she was banished, by Augustus to 

 Tremerus, off the coast of Apulia, where she survived twenty years, de- 

 pendent on the bounty of the empress Livia. A child born after her dis- 

 grace, was, by order of Augustus, exposed as spurious. She is supposed 

 by some to be the Corinna of Ovid's amatory poems. 



-^ He probably aUudes to the rising of some tribes in the provinces 

 on the north-eastern coast of the Adriatic, in b.c. 35, who refused to 

 pay their tribute. They were finally vanquished by Statilius Taurus, 

 B.C. 33. 



-^ After the defeat of his general Yarus, by Arminius, in Germany. 



-^ This pestilence is also mentioned by Dion Cassius ; it took place 

 A.r.c. 732.— B. 



-'' We have an account of the disastrous expedition of Varus in Florus, 

 B. iv. c. 12. -B. 



-* Suetonius speaks of calumnious pamphlets (libehi), that were circu- 

 lated about, even in the senate-house, to his extreme disparagement. 



-9 A posthumous son of M. "^'ipsanius Agrippa by Julia, the daughter 

 of Augustus, by whom he was adopted together with Tiberius. He was 

 afterwards banished to Planaria, off the coast of Corsica, on account of 

 his savage and intractable character, though guilty of no crime. Augus- 

 tus is said to have privately visited him there, which, coming to the ears 

 of Livia, increased her enmity against this youth, and he was murdered by 

 her orders or those of Tiberius. 



3'' Tacitus, Ann. B. i. c. 3, says that he was banished by the artifices of 

 Nero.— B. 



2^ After his death his solemn apotheosis took place in the Campus Mar- 

 tius. In some of the coins which were struck even during his hfe-time, be 

 was called " Divus," or '' the god." 



