The same punishment was adjudged to Catus Firmius, a Senator, for
having (it was alleged) assailed his sister with a
false charge of treason.
Catus, as I have related, had drawn Libo into a snare
and then destroyed
him by an information. Tiberius remembering this
service, while he alleged
other reasons, deprecated a sentence of exile, but did
not oppose his expulsion
from the Senate.
Much what I have related and shall have to
relate, may perhaps,
I am aware, seem petty |