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Notes Display Latin text | Caligula, Chapter 5: Death of Germanicus, cont.[19 AD] | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Yet far greater and stronger tokens of regard were shown at the time of his death and immediately afterwards. On the day when he [Note 1] passed away the temples were stoned and the altars of the gods thrown down, while some flung their household gods into the street and cast out their new-born children. Even barbarian peoples, so they say, who were engaged in war with us or with one another, unanimously consented to a truce, as if all in common had suffered a domestic tragedy. It is said that some princes put off their beards and had their wives' heads shaved, as a token of the deepest mourning; that even the king of kings [ Parthia] suspended his exercise at hunting and the banquets with his grandees, which among the Parthians is a sign of public mourning. Note 1: he = Germanicus |