t: however,
to speak to Tiberius on his behalf, she took to be a very difficult
thing, and indeed quite impracticable, as to any hope of success; yet
did she procure of Macro, that the soldiers that kept him should be of a
gentle nature, and that the centurion who was over them and was to diet
with him, should be of the same disposition, and that he might have
leave to bathe himself every day, and that his freed-men and friends
might come to him, and that other things that tended to ease him might
be indulged him. So his friend Silas came in to him, and two of his
freed-men, Marsyas and Stechus, brought him such sorts of food as he
was fond of, and indeed took great care of him; they also brought him
garments, under pretense of selling them; and when night came on, they
laid them under him; and the soldiers assisted them, as Macro had given
them order to do beforehand. And this was Agrippa's condition for six
months' time, and in this case were his affairs.

8. But for Tiberius, upon his return to Caprein, he fell sick. At first
his distemper was but gentle; but as that distemper increased upon him,
he had small or no hopes of recovery. Hereupon he bid Euodus, who was
that freed-man whom he most of all respected, to bring the children [23]
to him, for that he wanted to talk to them before he died. Now he had at
present no sons of his own alive for Drusus, who was his only son, was
dead; but Drusus's son Tiberius was still living, whose additional name
was Gemellus: there was also living Caius, the son of Germanicus, who
was the son [24] of his brother [Drusus]. He was now grown up, and had
a liberal education, and was well improved by it, and was in esteem
and favor with the people, on account of the excellent character of
his father Germanicus, who had attained the highest honor among the
multitude, by the firmness of his virtuous behavior, by the easiness
and agreeableness of his conversing with the multitude, and because the
dignity he was in did not hinder his familiarity with them all, as if
they were his equals; by which behavior he was not only greatly esteemed
by the people and the senate, but by every one of those nations that
were subject to the Romans; some of which were affected when they came
to him with the gracefulness of their reception by him, and others were
affected in the same manner by the report of the others that had been
with him; and, upon his death, there was a lamentation made by all men;
not