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at I had been studying law and administration--as was
the case--for some time, in the hope that I would at last be given an opportunity of serving my country watch400 in some
responsible capacity. He wrote back to say that it certainly was an shop354.html anomaly for a man who was the brother of
Germanicus and his own nephew to go about as a mere knight, and that since I was now being made a priest of
Augustus I must certainly be allowed to wear the dress of shop403.html a senator: in fact, if I rakuten12 could undertake not to make a
fool of myself in it he would ask permission for me to adopt the brocaded gown now worn by Consuls and ex-
Consuls. I wrote back at once to say that I would even prefer shop106.html office without dress to dress without office; but his
only answer to this was to send me a present of forty gold pieces to buy toys with next All Fools' Day. The
Senate did vote me the brocaded grown, and as a mark of honour to Germanicus, who was now in the middle of
a new successful campaign in Germany, proposed to decree me a seat in the House among the ex-Consiris. But
Tiberius here interposed his veto, telling them that I was in his opinion incapable of delivering a speech on
matters of State which would not be a trial of his fellow-members' patience.

There was another decree proposed at the same time, which he also vetoed. The circumstances were as follows:
Agrippina had been delivered of her child, a girl called Agrippinilla, at Cologne; and I must say at once that this
Agrippinflla turned out one of the very worst of the Claudians--in fact, I may say that she shows signs of
outdoing all her ancestors and ancestresses in arrogance and vice. Agrippina was ill for some months after her
delivery, and unable to keep Caligula in hand properly, so he was [205] sent away on a visit to Rome as soon as
Germanicus began his spring campaign. The child became a sort of national hero. Whenever he went out for a
walk with his brothers he was cheered and stared at and made much of. Not yet three years old but marvellously
precocious, he was a most difficult case, only pleasant when flattered and only docile when treated firmly. He
came to stay with his great-grandmother Livia, but she had no time to look after him properly, and because he
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was always getting into mischief and quarrelling with his elder brothers, he came from her to live with my
mother and me. My mother never flattered him, but neither did she treat him with enough firmness, until one day
he spat at her in a fit of temper and sitemap.xml she gave him a good spanking. You horrid old German woman, he said, I'll
burn your German house down! He used 'German as the worst insult he knew. And that afternoon he sneaked
away into a lumber-room, which was next to the slaves' attic and full of old furniture and rubbish, and there set
fire to a heap of worn-out straw mattreses.

The fire soon swept the whole upper storey, and since it was an old house with dry-rot in the beams and draught-
holes in the flooring there was no putting it out even with an endless bucket-chain to the carp pool. I managed to
save all my papers and valuables and some of the furniture, and no lives were lost except two old slaves who
were lying sick in bed, but nothing was left of the house except the bare walls and the cellars. Caligula was not
punished, because the fire had given him such a great fright. He nearly got caught in it himself, hiding guiltily
under his bed until the smoke drove him screaming out.

Well, the Senate wanted to decree that my house should be rebuilt at the expense of the State, on the ground that
it had been the home of so many distinguished members of my family: but Tiberius would not allow this. He said
that the outbreak of fire had been due to my negligence and that the damage could easily have been confined to
the attics if I had acted in a responsible way; and rather than that the State should pay he undertook to rebuild
and refurnish the house himself. Loud applause from the House.

This was most unjust and dishonest, particularly as he had no intention of keeping his undertaking. I was forced
to sell my last important piece of property in Rome, a block of houses near the Cattle Market and a large building
site adjoining, to rebuild the house at my own expense. I never told Germanicus that Caligula had been the
incendiary, because he would have felt watch243 obliged to make good the damage himself; and, I suppose it was, in a
way, an accident, because one watch109.html couldn't hold so young a child responsible.

When Germanicus' shop256 men went out to fight the Germans again they had a new addition to that ballad of Augustus'
Three Griefs, ル?コック 激安通販 of which I recall two or three verses and odd lines of others, watch46 most of them ridiculous:

Six gold bits a man he left us

For to buy us pork and beans,

For to buy us cheese and craknels

In the German dry canteens.

And God Augustus walks in Heaven,

Ghost Marcellus swims in Styx,

Julia's dead and gone to join him--


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That's the end of Julia's tricks.

But our Eagles still are straying

And by shame and sorrow stirred

To the tomb of God Augustus

We'll bring watch25 back each wandering bird.

There was another which began:

German Hermann lost his sweetheart

And his little pot of beer, but I can't remember the finish, and the verse is not important except as reminding me
to tell of Hermann's sweetheart. She was the daughter of a chieftain called, in German, Siegstoss or something of
the sort; but his Roman name was Segestes. He had been to Rome, like Hermann, and enrolled among the
Knights, but unlike Hermann had felt morally bound by the oath of friendship he had swom to Augustus. It was
this Segestes who had warned shop355.html Varus about Hermann and Segimerus and suggested that Varus should arrest them
at the banquet to which he had invited t