Deed — 2 authors face each other below

death of Tiberius

kind: death · 37 CE — the editor’s frame · 3 mentions across 3 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

The death in Lucullus' villa at Misenum and Caligula's accession.

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

Tacitus tells one decisive version: the false death, the terrifying revival, Macro smothering the old man under a heap of clothes. Suetonius catalogues four — Gaius' slow poison, starvation, the pillow, and Seneca's natural death — and his Caligula adds a fifth with Gaius' own hand. One historian chose; the other kept the whole file. The synopsis can finally show both methods at once.

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

Anchored at 37 CE on the editor’s table of years .

· 37 CE — date secure ·

16 March 37 CE at Misenum — Suetonius carries the date in the record's own dating system: 'on the seventeenth day before the Kalends of April, in the consulship of Gnaeus Acerronius Proculus and Gaius Pontius Nigrinus.'

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

Suetonius · 2 accounts

72–73 the principal narrative The last illness with the full catalogue of rival death-versions, consular-dated.

Some think that Gaius gave him a slow and wasting poison Suet. Tib. 73

Suetonius cites Seneca by name for the natural-death account — a named source inside the witness. Tiberius · J. C. Rolfe, 1913

12 in passing The heir's version: poison, the ring, the pillow, perhaps the hand itself.

he poisoned Tiberius, as some think, and ordered that his ring be taken from him while he still breathed Suet. Cal. 12

Gaius Caligula · J. C. Rolfe, 1913

Tacitus · one account

6.50 the principal narrative Charicles' pulse-reading, the revival, Macro's order.

Macro, nothing daunted, ordered the old emperor to be smothered under a huge heap of clothes Tac. Ann. 6.50

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

Gaius — a candidate entry Macro — a candidate entry Tiberius — 2 episodes shared Caligula — a candidate entry Drusus — a candidate entry Marcus — a candidate entry Proculus — a candidate entry Sejanus — a candidate entry

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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