This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... TIBERIUS I.--THE DEATH OF POSTUMUS. The death of Augustus was immediately succeeded by a tragedy of a peculiarly dark and mysterious nature in his own family. The news of the critical condition in which Augustus lay at Nola had reached Rome, and had revived the hopes and sharpened the ambitions of all the partisans of the Julian branch of the reigning dynasty, and it encouraged the renewal of the attempts that had been frustrated, of releasing Agrippa, the last surviving prince of the Julian house, from his confinement in the island of Planasia, and of setting him on the throne. A confidential agent, who had formerly been his chamberlain, Clemens by name, was the prime mover in this plot. He proposed to deliver the prince and convey him to the German legions, in the hopes that at their head he might assert, and, if need be, make good his right to the vacant throne. The plan was a bold one, and we may be sure that it was not, as Tacitus intimates, a private venture. Others were in the plot. Scribonia DEGREESc. OCTAVIUS = (CAESAR AUGUSTUS), b. 691(b.0.63): +767 (a.d. 14). Livia Drusilla=tib. Claudius Nero, b. 697(b.c. 57); + 782 (a.d. 29). + 720 (d.c. 34). M. Vipsanius = Julia = TIBERIUS, Agrippa, .715(b.0.39); b. 712(8.C42); i. 691 (b.c. 63); +767(a.d. 14). +790 (a.d. 37). +742 (b.c. 12). C. Caesar, Lucius Caesar, b. 734 (b.c. 20); *. 737 (b.c. 17); +757 (a-d. 4). +755(a.d. 2). Drusus -- Antonia, b. 716 (b.c. 38); +745 ("-C 9)- b. 718 (i>.c. 36); +790 (a.d. 37). L. Aemilius = Julia. Paullus. Agrippina == Germanicus, b. circ. 740 (b.c. 14): in. circ. 758 (a.d. 5); +786 (a.d. 33). Agrippa Postumus, b. 739 (b.c. 15); b. 742 (b.c. 12); +772 (a.d. 19). +767 (a.d. 14). Julia = da. Drusus mi. +796U.D. 43). Nero Caesar, *-759 (a.D. 6);..