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Annals by Tacitus
Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb
Book III Chapter 5: The funeral of Germanicus (cont.)[AD 20]
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Some there were who missed the grandeur of a state-funeral, and contrasted the splendid honours conferred by Augustus on Drusus, the father of Germanicus. "Then the emperor himself" they said, "went in the extreme rigour of winter as far as Ticinum and never leaving the corpse entered Rome with it. Round the funeral bier were ranged the images of the Claudii and the Julii; there was weeping in the forum, and a panegyric before the rostra; every honour devised by our ancestors or invented by their descendants was heaped on him. But as for Germanicus, even the customary distinctions due to any noble had not fallen to his lot. Granting that his body, because of the distance of the journey, was burnt in any fashion in foreign lands, still all the more honours ought to have been afterwards paid him, because at first chance had denied them. His brother [Note 1] had gone but one day's journey to meet him; his uncle [Note 2] not even to the city gates. Where were all those usages of the past, the image at the head of the bier, the lays composed in commemoration of worth, the eulogies and laments, or at least the semblance of grief"

Note 1: brother = Claudius
Note 2: uncle = Tiberius

Event: The funeral of Germanicus