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AND yet there was not found but one, who attempted such a Marriage, Talledius Severus, a Ro∣man Knight; to which, as it was re∣puted, he was meerly instigated, to serve his Mistress Agrippina.
However, says D'Ablancourt, there was but one single Person who follow'd the Exam∣ple; which by report he always did, to plea∣sure Agrippina.
A certain Proof, that Subjects think quite otherwise then they speak. When
they find that the Prince's desires are eagerly bent for speedy Satisfaction, they shew themselves more eager still to gra∣tifie his Impatience: Yet afterward they shew their Dislike, in forbearing to fol∣low the Example; which is the most cer∣tain Symptom which the People can give of their ill Resentment of the Act. Claudius had caus'd his Marriage to be de∣creed Legitimate by the Senate, belie∣ving the Romans would follow his Exam∣ple, and authorize those Marriages by Custom. However notwithstanding the Decree, which was a sufficient shelter from Punishment or Infamy; yet there was but one single Person who follow'd his President. Nor did he neither marry his Wife out of any true persuasion that his Marriage was Just and Lawful, but out of a desire to please the Empress, and to raise his Fortune by an Act, of which there was no Body car'd to share the Reward.