tim in one of Cicero's Philippics,[1] calleth him venefica, witch; as if he had enchanted Cæsar.[2] Augustus raised Agrippa[3] (though of mean birth) to that height, as[4] when he consulted with Mæcenas[5] about the marriage of his daughter Julia, Mæcenas took the liberty to tell him, that he must either marry his daughter to Agrippa, or take away his life: there was no third way, he had made him so great.[6] With Tiberius Cæsar, Sejanus had ascended to that height, as they two were termed and reckoned as a pair of friends. Tiberius in a letter to him saith, hæc pro amicitiâ nostrâ non occultavi;[7] and the whole senate dedicated an altar to Friendship, as to a goddess, in respect of the great dearness of friendship between them two. The like or more was between Septimius Severus and Plautianus. For he forced his eldest son to marry the daughter of Plautianus; and would often maintain Plautianus in doing affronts to his son; and did write also in a letter to the senate, by these words: I love the man so well, as I wish he may over-live[8] me. Now if
- ↑ Cicero's Philippics are fourteen orations against Antony, delivered in 44–43. The original Philippics are Demosthenes's nine orations against Philip of Macedon.
- ↑ M. Tullii Ciceronis in M. Antonium Oratio Philippica Tertia Decima. XI. 25.
- ↑ Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, 63–12 B.C., Roman commander and the leading statesman of the reign of Augustus. His third wife was Julia, daughter of Augustus and widow of Marcellus.
- ↑ As. That.
- ↑ Caius Cilnius Maecenas, died 8 B.C., Roman statesman and patron of letters. With Agrippa, he was the chief adviser of Augustus down to 16 B.C., when he became estranged from his master and retired to private life. He was the friend and patron of Horace and Vergil.
- ↑ Dion Cassius. Liber LVI. 6.
- ↑ Because of our friendship, I have not concealed these things. P. Cornelii Taciti Annalium Liber IV. 40.
- ↑ Overlive. To survive; to outlive. "And Israel served the Lord
