57. After the virtuous and unfortunate widow of Germanicus
had been put to death, Tiberius received the thanks of the
senate for his clemency. She had not been publicly
strangled; nor was the body drawn with a hook to the
Gemoniae, where those of common malefactors were exposed.
Tacit. Annal. vi. 25. Sueton. in Tiberio, c. 53.