The principal omens of his death were the following: the rise of a long-haired star, commonly called a comet; the striking of his father Drusus’s tomb by lightning ; and the fact that many magistrates of all ranks had died that same year. There are besides some indications that he himself was not unaware of of his approaching end, and that he made no secret it ; for when he was appointing the consuls, he made no appointment beyond the month when he died, and on his last appearance in the senate, after earnestly exhorting his children to harmony, he begged the members to watch over the tender years of both ; and in his last sitting on the tribunal he declared more than once that. he had reached the end of a mortal career, although all who heard him prayed that the omen might be averted.*