Germanicus, who were next in hope for the succession, he deviseth
to make Tiberius' self his means, and instils into his ears many
doubts and suspicions, both against the princes, and their mother
Agrippina; which Caesar jealously hearkening to, as covetously
consenteth to their ruin, and their friends. In this time, the
better to mature and strengthen his design, Sejanus labours to
marry Livia, and worketh with all his ingine, to remove Tiberius
from the knowledge of public business, with allurements of a quiet
and retired life; the latter of which, Tiberius, out of a proneness
to lust, and a desire to hide those unnatural pleasures which he
could not so publicly practise, embraceth: the former enkindleth
his fears, and there gives him first cause of doubt or suspect
towards Sejanus: against whom he raiseth in private a new
instrument, one Sertorius Macro, and by him underworketh, discovers
the other's counsels, his means, his ends, sounds the affections of
the senators, divides, distracts them: at last, when Sejanus least
looketh, and is most secure with pretext of doing him an unwonted
honour in the senate, he trains him from his guards, and with a
long doubtful letter, one day hath him suspected, accused,
condemned, and torn in pieces by the rage of the people.




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