Deed — 2 authors face each other below

fall of Sejanus

kind: fall · 31 CE — the editor’s frame · 5 mentions across 5 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

The overthrow of Tiberius' praetorian prefect. THE GAP IS THE POINT: Tacitus' account of the arrest and execution is lost with Annals 5; the house serves his before and after around Suetonius' summary.

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

Suetonius makes Sejanus' destruction proof that Tiberius' cruelty was his own — 'his favourite was not wont to egg him on'; Tacitus' surviving frame gives the rise ('the daring wickedness by which he grasped at power') and the children strangled after, the little girl asking what she had done wrong. The central scene is missing from the record, and the index refuses to paraphrase it in.

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

Anchored at 31 CE on the editor’s table of years .

· 31 CE — date secure ·

18 October 31 CE by the fasti; Tacitus' narrative of the day itself fell in the lost portion of Annals 5 — the served record carries the rise, the aftermath, and Suetonius' compressed account, not the fall itself.

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

61–65 the principal narrative The overthrow compressed: the plot feared, the man pulled down, the cruelty after.

When Sejanus was plotting revolution, although he saw the man’s birthday publicly celebrated and his golden statues honoured everywhere Suet. Tib. 65

After the death of Sejanus he was more cruel than ever, which showed that his favourite was not wont to egg him on Suet. Tib. 61

Tiberius · J. C. Rolfe, 1913

Tacitus · 2 accounts

4.1–4.3 before the fact The portrait at the ascent: origins, character, method.

I will now fully describe his extraction, his character, and the daring wickedness by which he grasped at power. Tac. Ann. 4.1

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

5.9–6.19 the aftermath — the event itself offstage What the fall left behind: the children executed, the prisons emptied by massacre.

It was next decided to punish the remaining children of Sejanus Tac. Ann. 5.9

he ordered the death of all who were lying in prison under accusation of complicity with Sejanus. Tac. Ann. 6.19

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

Tiberius — 3 episodes shared Augustus — 2 episodes shared Germanicus — a candidate entry Sejanus — a candidate entry Brutus — a candidate entry Drusus — a candidate entry Seius — a candidate entry Strabo — a candidate entry Tiber — 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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