CONTENTS.

BOOK II.

I. COMMOTIONS in the East. II. Vonones sent from Rome to reign over the Parthians at their own request. III. He is deposed by the Parthians. Artabanus ascends the throne. Vonones flies to the Armenians, and is received as their king; but soon dethroned, and guarded as a prisoner by Silanus, the governor of Syria. V. Tiberius, under feigned pretences, thinks of recalling Germanicus from the command in Germany. The exploits of Germanicus before he leaves Germany. He builds a fleet, and makes war on the Cheruscans. IX. Interview between Arminius and his brother Flavius. Arminius defeated. He gives battle a second time with like success. XXIII. The Roman fleet suffers great damage in a violent storm. The behaviour of Germanicus. He repairs his ships, and chastises the Marsians; lays waste the country, and returns to winter quarters. XXVI. Tiberius persists in his resolution, and Germanicus returns to Rome. XXVII. Libo Drusus charged with designs against the state; his trial and violent death. The conduct of the informers. XXXIII. The luxury of the times taken into consideration by the senate. Lucius Piso secedes from the senate, and threatens to go into voluntary exile. His law-suit with Urgulania, the favourite of Livia, and his firmness. The insolence of Urgulania. XXXVII. The poverty of Marcus Hortalus, grandson to Hortensius, the famous orator: he applies to the senate for relief; Tiberius opposes him. XXXIX. A man of the name of Clemens pretends to be the real Agrippa Posthumus: he spreads an alarm, but is found to be one of Agrippa's slaves: is seized, and put to death by order of Tiberius. XLI. The public tri

umph of Germanicus for his victories in Germany. XLII.
Archelaus, king of Cappadocia, drawn by artifice to Rome;
his reception there, and his death. His kingdom reduced to
a province. XLIII. Germanicus made governor of the East;
and the province of Syria committed to Piso, with secret in-
structions from Livia and Tiberius. XLIV. Drusus sent into
Illyricum, and why. Dissensions among the Germans. Ar-
minius gains a victory over Maroboduus king of the Sue-
vians. XLVII. Twelve cities in Asia swallowed up by an
earthquake. Tiberius grants relief to the distresses of the
people. L. The law of violated majesty put in force. A wo-
man charged with speaking disrespectfully of Augustus;
and also of Tiberius and his mother. LII. Tacfarinas, a Nu-
midian freebooter, raises an insurrection in Africa, but is
defeated by Camillus. LIII. Germanicus, while on his way
to Asia, is chosen consul in conjunction with Tiberius. He
enters Armenia, and places Zeno on the throne. LVII. The
contumacy of Piso: his interview with Germanicus. The
latter makes a progress into Egypt, to see the monuments
of Antiquity. LXII. Maroboduus, driven out of Germany
by Catualda, a German chief, flies into Italy: he lives twenty
years at Ravenna, and dies there in obscurity. Catualda, in
like manner expelled by his countrymen, is placed by the
Romans at Forum Julium. LXIV. Rhescuporis, king of
Thrace, murders his nephew, and is sent a prisoner to
Rome. He is ordered to Alexandria, and there put to death.
LXVIII. Vonones attempts to escape out of Cilicia; and
being taken is killed by a veteran soldier. LXIX. Germani-
cus returns from Egypt. Animosities between him and
Piso. Germanicus is seized with a fit of illness: he reco-
vers, but has a relapse. Poison suspected. He takes leave of
his friends. His last advice to his wife. His death, and the
grief of all ranks of men. LXXIII. His funeral and his
character. LXXIV. Sentius takes upon him the govern-
ment of Syria. Piso, at the Isle of Coos, hears of the death
of Germanicus; he returns to Syria, and endeavours to re-
sume the command. LXXV. Agrippina embarks with the
urn of Germanicus. Piso fails in his attempts, and is sent to

Rome. LXXXIII. Honours decreed to the memory of Ger-
manicus. LXXXV. Laws to restrain the lascivious beha-
viour of the women. LXXXVI. The choice of a new ves-
tal virgin in the room of Occia, deceased. LXXXVII. Ti-
berius rejects the title of Father of his Country, and the
name of Sovereign Lord. LXXXVIII. Arminius dies in
Germany by the treachery of his own people. The charac-
ter of that eminent chief.

THE

ANNALS

OF

TACITUS.

BOOK II.

I. DURING the consulship of Sisenna Statilius Taurus and Lucius Libo, the oriental kingdoms, and, by consequence, the Roman provinces were thrown into commotion. The flame of discord was lighted up among the Parthians. That restless people had sued for a king at the hands of Rome; and after acknowledging his title, as a descendant from the line of the Arsacides (a), began with their natural levity to despise him, as an alien to the crown. Vonones was the name of this unpopular prince: he had been formerly sent by his father Phraates (b) as an hostage to Augustus. The Eastern monarch made head against the armies of Rome, and had driven her generals out of his dominions; but he endeavoured, notwithstanding, by every mark of respect, to conciliate the friendship of Augustus. As a pledge of sincerity, he went the length of delivering up to the custody of the Romans even his

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