Deed — 2 authors face each other below

death of Germanicus

kind: death · 19 CE — the editor’s frame · 4 mentions across 4 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

The death at Antioch amid poisoning charges against Cn. Piso; for the trial see trial-of-piso-20ce.

Where the accounts part — the record’s own argument; the witnesses below carry the receipts

Tacitus serves the poisoning as belief — leaden tablets, exhumed remains, a dying man's charge — while carefully never convicting; Suetonius reports flatly that Germanicus died 'through the treachery of Tiberius, and at the hands and by the direction of Piso' is the tradition his Caligula opens on. Between belief and assertion sits the exact gap the synopsis exists to show. Both record the comparison to Alexander.

The regnal line — the editor’s table of years, never the record’s voice

Anchored at 19 CE on the editor’s table of years .

· 19 CE — date secure ·

10 October 19 CE at Antioch, within the Annals' consular year; the trial of Piso followed in 20 (its own event).

The accounts, side by side — each witness in its own words; every quote is the served record’s, linked to its episode

Suetonius · one account

1–6 the principal narrative Germanicus' life and death opening the Caligula, with Rome's grief at the news.

In consequence Piso narrowly escaped being torn to pieces by the people on his return to Rome Suet. Cal. 2

But when it was at last made known that he was no more, the public grief could be checked neither by any consolation nor edict Suet. Cal. 6

Gaius Caligula · J. C. Rolfe, 1913

Tacitus · one account

2.69–2.73 the principal narrative The sickbed, the sorcery apparatus in the walls, the dying speech, the Alexander parallel.

The terrible intensity of the malady was increased by the belief that he had been poisoned by Piso. Tac. Ann. 2.69

likened his end to that of Alexander the Great. Tac. Ann. 2.73

The Annals · Alfred John Church & William Jackson Brodribb, 1876

Who stands in this deed — standing in the same episodes; counted by the house’s first pass

Germanicus — a candidate entry Piso — a candidate entry Tiberius — 2 episodes shared

Doors to the sister houses

logoi — the words

No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.

mythoi — the stories

No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.

The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served

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