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Annals by Tacitus
Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb
Book IV Chapter 9: Murder of Drusus. His funeral[AD 23]
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There was great weeping at these words, and then many a benediction. Had the emperor [Note 1] set bounds to his speech, he must have filled the hearts of his hearers with sympathy and admiration. But he now fell back on those idle and often ridiculed professions about restoring the republic, and the wish that the consuls or some one else might undertake the government, and thus destroyed belief even in what was genuine and noble. The same honours were decreed to the memory of Drusus as to that of Germanicus, and many more were added. Such is the way with flattery, when repeated. The funeral procession with its statues was singularly grand. Aeneas, the father of the Julian house, all the Alban kings, Romulus, Rome's founder, then the Sabine nobility Attus Clausus, and the busts of all the other Claudii were displayed in a long train.

Note 1: emperor = Tiberius

Event: Murder of Drusus