Tacitus, Cornelius
Annales
Annals 11.2
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No hearing before the Senate was granted him. It was in the emperor's chamber, in the presence of
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Messalina
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, that he was heard. There
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Suilius
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accused him of corrupting the troops, of binding them by bribes and indulgences to share in every crime, of adultery with
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Poppæa
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, and finally of unmanly vice. It was at this last that the accused broke silence, and burst out with the words, "Question thy own sons,
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Suilius
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; they will own my manhood." Then he entered on his defence.
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Claudius
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he moved profoundly, and he even drew tears from
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Messalina
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. But as she left the chamber to
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wipe them away, she warned
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Vitellius
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not to let the man escape. She hastened herself to effect
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Poppæa
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's destruction, and hired agents to drive her to suicide by the terrors of a prison.
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Cæsar
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meanwhile was so unconscious that a few days afterwards he asked her husband
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Scipio
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, who was dining with him, why he sat down to table without his wife, and was told in reply that she had paid the debt of nature.
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Dual references show Vulgate ↔ LXX loci for each oracle block. Selected-witness order follows the left compare column (or primary version).