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which there were added numerous other evils, such as the 
w^ant 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 Yarns 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 
^]miliiis Paulus. She fully inberited the vices of her mother. For an 
adulterous intercourse with D. Silanns 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 alludes 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. 
-5 After the defeat of his general Yarus, by Arminius, in Germany. 
26 This pestilence is also mentioned by Dion Cassius ; it took place 
A. u.c. 732.— B. 
27 We have an account of the disastrous expedition of Yarus in Florus, 
B. iv. c. 12. -B. 
-8 Suetonius speaks of calumnious pamphlets (libelli), that were circu- 
lated about, even in the senate-house, to his extreme disparagement. 
'^9 A posthumous son of M. Yipsanius 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. 
30 Tacitus, Ann. B. i. c. 3, says that he was banished by the artifices of 
Nero. — B. 
31 After his death his solemn apotheosis took place in the Campus Mar- 
tins. In some of the coins which were struck even during his life-time, he 
was called " Divus," or "the god." 
