The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

§. 10. Caius cruel.

The recovery of the Emperor Caius, from that disease under which we left him ere while, proved the sickness of the whole State, and the death of divers. For now he be∣gan to shew himself in his own colour, and to lay open the inside of his barbarous na∣ture, which hitherto he had hid under strange dissimulation. P. Asranius Petitus a Ple∣beian, and Atanius Secundus a Knight, had bound themselves by oath, in the Emperors sickness, partly in flattery, partly in hope of reward, the one that he would die on con∣dition the Prince might recover; and the other that he would venture his life in combate on the same condition. Caius understanding of this obligation, and pretending that he would have neither of them perjured, seeing he was now well again, constrained them both to perform their vows, and brought them to repent their flattery with repentance too late and vain, and to a reward clean contrary to their expectation. Nor was his cru∣elty any whit less, though for very shame it must be better dissembled, to his Father in Law the noble Silanus. A man hated of him for the two main things that in humane so∣ciety are the tyes of love, vertue, and alliance, and so indignly used him, that he found no way to regain his love, nor any better to avoid his hate than to murder himself with his own hands. Claudia the daughter of Silanus was his wife, but he divorced her from him, and took Cornelia Orestilla, from her husband Calpurnius Piso, on their very wedding day, where he was present at the solemnization, and he kept her not two months, but sent her to her Piso again.