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.

§. 3. His death.

Charicles the Doctor gave notice of his death approaching, to Caius and Macro, though he stole this judgment and conjecture but by a sleight. For sitting with the Em∣peror at a Banquet, and taking on him some earnest and speedy occasion to be gone to some other place, he rose from the Table, and pretending to take the Emperors hand to kiss, he closely and stealingly tried his Pulse, which Tiberius perceiving, but not expres∣sing so much, caused him to take his place again, and the Banquet to be renewed, and

him to set out the meal. But when the Doctor was got loose from the Table, and was come to Caius and Macro, and the rest of the adorers of that imperial Sun that was now waiting when he should rise, he resolved them that his end drew on apace, and was not many days off: And then was all preparation for the new Emperor when the last gaspe should remove the old. But he that had used so much dissimulation all his life, dissembled even in his dying. For fainting and swooning so very sore, that all conceived he was de∣parted, and Caius and all his favorites were gone forth to take possession of his new Em∣pire: suddenly the tune is turned, and news comes forth that Tiberius is revived and cal∣leth for meat: Macro that had often been his instrument of cruelty upon others, turns the faculty now upon himself, and in stead of meat stopt his mouth with a pillow, or with heaping cloaths upon his face and so he died. There are indeed diversities of opi∣nion about the manner of his death, some saying it was thus as is mentioned, others that it was by poyson, others that it was by being denied meat in the intermission of his ••its▪ others that he rose out of his bed and fell on the floor, no body being near him: all which are mentioned by Suetonius. It is not much material what his end was, that that is first named is most intertained, and certainly it suiteth very well with his deservings, and it is some wonder that he came to such an end no sooner. He died the seventeenth of the Calends of April or the sixteenth of March, or if Dion may have his will the seventh, and so the rest of that year is accounted the first of Caius.