Tacitus, Cornelius
Annales
Annals 3.2
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The emperor had despatched two pr
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Calabria
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,
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Apulia
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, and
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Campania
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were to pay the last honours to his son's memory. Accordingly tribunes and centurions bore
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Germanicus
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's ashes on their shoulders. They were preceded by the
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standards unadorned and the fasces reversed. As they passed colony after colony, the populace in black, the knights in their state robes, burnt vestments and perfumes with other usual funeral adjuncts, in proportion to the wealth of the place. Even those whose towns were out of the route, met the mourners, offered victims and built altars to the dead, testifying their grief by tears and wailings.
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Drusus
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went as far as
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Tarracina
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with
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Claudius
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, brother of
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Germanicus
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, and the children who had been at
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Rome
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.
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Marcus Valerius
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and
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Caius Aurelius
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, the consuls, who had already entered on office, and a great number of the people thronged the road in scattered groups, every one weeping as he felt inclined. Flattery there was none, for all knew that
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Tiberius
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could scarcely dissemble his joy at the death of
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Germanicus
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