I. La familia patricia de los Claudios

LXXIII. Meanwhile, finding, upon looking over the acts of the senate, > “that some person under prosecution had been discharged, without being brought to a hearing,” for he had only written cursorily that they had been denounced by an informer; he complained in a great rage that he was treated with contempt, and resolved at all hazards to return to Capri; not daring to attempt any thing until he found himself in a place of security. But being detained by storms, and the increasing violence of his disorder, he died shortly afterwards, at a villa formerly belonging to Lucullus, in the seventy-eighth year of his age 371, and the twenty-third of his reign, upon the seventeenth of the calends of April (16th March), in the consulship of Cneius Acerronius Proculus and Caius Pontius Niger. * Some think that a slow-consuming poison was given him by Caius 372. * Others say that during the interval of the intermittent fever with which he happened to be seized, upon asking for food, it was denied him. * Others report, that he was stifled by a pillow thrown upon him 373, when, on his recovering from a swoon, he