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C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Caligula (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 24 (search)
s Longinus, a man of consular rank, he took her from him, and kept her constantly as if she were his lawful wife. In a fit of sickness, he by his will appointed her heiress both of his estate and the empire. After her death, he ordered a public mourning for her; during which it was capital for any person to laugh, use the bath, or sup with his parents, wife, or children. Being inconsolable under his affliction, he went hastily, and in the night-time, from the City; going through Campania to Syracuse, and then suddenly returned without shaving his beard, or trimming his hair. Nor did he ever afterwards, in matters of the greatest importance, not even in the assemblies of the people or before the soldiers, swear any otherwise, than "By the divinity ofDrusilla." The rest of his sisters hedid not treat with so much fondness or regard; but frequently prostituted them to his catamites. He therefore the more readily condemned them in the case of AEmilius Lepidus, as guilty of adultery, and pr