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Excerpt from The Works of Cornelius Tacitus, Vol. 2 of 4: With an Essay on the Life and Genius of Tacitus; Notes, Supplements and Maps Why his wife was not of the party (a) 9 Scipio made anfwer, She is dead. III. Claudius was, for fome time, in fufpenfe. He was inclined to favour Afiaticus, but Vitel lius interpofed. W ith tears in his eyes, he talked of the friendfhip which had long fubfifi ed between the prifoner and himfelf; he menti oned their mutual habits at the court of Antonia, the emperor s mother; he fiated the public me rit of Afiaticus; and, in particular, the glory of his late expedition into Britain; he omitted no thing that'could excite compaffion, but, at lafi, concluded (with a firoke of treachery), that to allow him to choofe his mode of dying was an indulgence due to fo diinguifhed a charaéter. This cruel fpecies of clemency was adopted by Claudius. The friends of Afiaticujs recom mended abinence, as a mode of death eafy and gradual. He fcorned the pretended lenity, and betook himfelf to his ulual exercifes. He bath ed and fupped with alacrity of mind. To die, he faid, by the 1ntrigues of an artful woman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.