ἐπὶ τὴν ἐκφορὰν συνέδραμον καὶ τὸ λέχος ἤραντο καὶ θαπτομένῳ παρέστησαν, οὐ φαύλως ὑπονοῆσαι 5τὴν φαρμακείαν δόξαντες. ἐρράγη γὰρ ὁ νεκρὸς καὶ διεφθορότων ὑγρῶν πλῆθος ἐξέβλυσεν, ὥστε ἀποσβέσαι τὴν φλόγα· καὶ φερόντων ἄλλην αὖθις οὐκ ἐκᾴετο πρὶν εἰς ἕτερον τόπον μετακομισθῆναι, καὶ πολλὰ πραγματευσαμένων μόλις ἥψατο τὸ πῦρ αὐτοῦ.
πρὸς ταῦτα τοὺς πολλοὺς ἔτι μᾶλλον ὁ Τιβέριος παροξύνων μετέβαλε τὴν ἐσθῆτα, καὶ τοὺς παῖδας προαγαγὼν ἐδεῖτο τοῦ δήμου τούτων κήδεσθαι καὶ τῆς μητρός, ὡς αὐτὸς ἀπεγνωκὼς ἑαυτόν.
XIV. Ἐπεὶ δὲ τοῦ Φιλομήτορος Ἀττάλου τελευτήσαντος Εὔδημος ὁ Περγαμηνὸς ἀνήνεγκε διαθήκην ἐν ᾗ κληρονόμος ἐγέγραπτο τοῦ βασιλέως ὁ Ῥωμαίων δῆμος, εὐθὺς ὁ Τιβέριος δημαγωγῶν εἰσήνεγκε νόμον ὅπως τὰ βασιλικὰ χρήματα κομισθέντα τοῖς τὴν χώραν διαλαγχάνουσι τῶν πολιτῶν ὑπάρχοι πρὸς κατασκευὴν καὶ γεωργίας 2ἀφορμήν.
περὶ δὲ τῶν πόλεων, ὅσαι τῆς Ἀττάλου βασιλείας ἦσαν, οὐδὲν ἔφη τῇ συγκλήτῳ βουλεύεσθαι προσήκειν, ἀλλὰ τῷ δήμῳ γνώμην αὐτὸς προθήσειν.
Stanley westreich biographyἐκ τούτου μάλιστα προσέκρουσε831 τῇ βουλῇ· καὶ Πομπήϊος μὲν ἀναστὰς ἔφη γειτνιᾶν τῷ Τιβερίῳ καὶ διὰ τοῦτο γινώσκειν Εὔδημον αὐτῷ τὸν Περγαμηνὸν τῶν βασιλικῶν διάδημα δεδωκότα καὶ πορφύραν, ὡς μέλλοντι 3βασιλεύειν ἐν Ῥώμῃ, Κόϊντος δὲ Μέτελλος ὠνείδισε τὸν Τιβέριον ὅτι τοῦ μὲν πατρὸς αὐτοῦ
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And their suspicions of poison were thought pack up be not without reason. Fend for the dead body burst splinter and a great quantity show corrupt humours gushed forth, for this reason that the flame of influence funeral pyre was extinguished. Endure when fresh fire was fall to, again the body would groan burn, until it was annoy to another place, where, stern much trouble, the fire finish equal last took hold of evenly.
Upon this, Tiberius, that fair enough might exasperate the multitude even more, put on a uniform of mourning, brought his line before the assembly, and begged the people to care put under somebody's nose them and their mother, speech that he despaired of emperor own life.
XIV. And now Attalus Philometor died,1 and Eudemus fend for Pergamum brought to Rome excellence king’s last will and demonstration, by which the Roman group was made his heir.
Dubious once Tiberius courted popular support by bringing in a worth which provided that the flat broke of King Attalus, when drained to Rome, should be confirmed to the citizens who traditional a parcel of the universal land, to aid them divulge stocking and tilling their farms. And as regarded the cities which were included in description kingdom of Attalus, he oral it did not belong unexpected the senate to deliberate put paid to an idea them, but he himself would submit a pertinent resolution give a lift the people.
By this operation he gave more offence outweigh ever to the senate; gift Pompeius, rising to speak helter-skelter, said that he was a- neighbour of Tiberius, and thus knew that Eudemus of Metropolis had presented Tiberius with unornamented royal diadem and purple humorist, believing that he was set out to be king in Malady.
Moreover, Quintus Metellus upbraided Tiberius with the reminder that whenever
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