Legatio Ad Gaium

For Tiberius, who was a man of very profound prudence, and the most able of all the men of his court at perceiving the hidden intentions of any man, and who was as preeminent in intelligence and acuteness as he was in good fortune, did very often look with suspicion upon Caius as being evil disposed towards all the house of Claudius, and as being related to him only on the mother’s side, [*](Caligula was the son of Germanicus and Agrippina. ) and he feared for his grandson, lest he, being left a mere child, should be put to death by him.