Behold Jupiter, who rules for so many years, broke Vulcan's leg alone, whom
"seizing by the foot he tossed from the heavenly threshold"
and was angry at his wife and hung her up: surely he killed? You killed Messalina, whose great-great-uncle I was equally as yours. "I don't know," you say. May the gods do bad things to you: so much fouler this is that you do not know than that you killed. He did not cease to follow the dead Gaius Caesar. The former killed his father-in-law: the latter even his son-in-law. Gaius forbid the son of Crassus to be called Magnus. This man returned that name to him, and took his head. In one house he killed Crassus, Magnus, Scribonia, no race of Assaracus, nevertheless noble people, Crassus truly is so stupid, that he too can reign. Now you want this man to become a god? Behold his body body with the gods being angry. To sum, let him say three words quickly, and he may lead me as his servant. Who will care for this god? Who will believe in him? While you make such gods, no one believes you are gods. The some of thing, honorable fathers, if I have borne myself honestly among you, if I have responded to none too clearly, vindicate my injuries. I vote this as my wisdom:" (and so he recited from a tablet) "Since indeed the Divine Claudius killed his father-in-law Appius Silanus, his sons-in-law Magnus Pompeius and Lucius Silanus, the father-in-law of his sister Crassus Frugus, a man so similar to him as egg to egg, the mother-in-law of his sister Scirbonia, his wife Messalina and the rest of which the number cannot be brought forth, it is pleasing to turn my self against him severely, and not to give him exemption from the right of being judged, and to carry him out as soon as possible, and that he leave the sky within thirty days, Olympus within the third day." They went to their feet at this judgement. And with no delay, Cylennius drug that one with his neck bent to the dead,
"whence they say no one returns."
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