His infancy and childhood were spent in the midst of danger and trouble; for he
					accompanied his parents everywhere in their flight, and twice at Naples nearly betrayed them by his crying,
					when they were privately hastening to a ship, as the enemy rushed into the town;
					once, when he was snatched from his nurse's breast, and again, from his mother's
					bosom, by some of the company, who on the sudden emergency wished to relieve the
					women of their burden. Being carried through Sicily and Achaia , and
					entrusted for some time to the care of the Lacedaemonians, who were under the
					protection of the Claudian family, upon his departure thence when travelling by
					night, he ran the hazard of his life, by a fire which, suddenly bursting out of
					a wood on all sides, surrounded the whole party so closely, that part of Livia's
					dress and hair was burnt. The presents which were made him by Pompeia, sister to
					Sextus Pompey, in Sicily , namely, a
					cloak, with a clasp, and bullae of gold, are still in existence, and shewn at
						 Baiae to this day. After his
					return to the city, being adopted by Marcus Gallius, a senator, in his will, he
					took possession of the estate; but soon afterwards declined the use of his name,
					because Gallius had been of the party opposed to Augustus. When only nine years
					of age, he pronounced a funeral oration in praise of his father upon the rostra;
					and afterwards, when he had nearly attained the age of manhood, he attended the
					chariot of Augustus, in his triumph for the victory at Actium , riding on the left-hand horse, whilst
					Marcellus, Octavia's son, rode that on the right. He likewise presided at the
					games celebrated on account of that victory; and in the Trojan games intermixed
					with the Circensian, he commanded a troop of the biggest boys. After assuming the manly habit, he spent his youth, and the rest of his life
					until he succeeded to the government, in the following manner: he gave the
					people an entertainment of gladiators, in memory of his father, and another for
					his grandfather Drusus, at different times and in different places: the first in
					the forum, the second in the amphitheatre; some gladiators who had been
					honourably discharged, being induced to engage again, by a reward of a hundred
					thousand sesterces. He likewise exhibited public sports, at which he was not
					present himself. All these he performed with great magnificence, at the expense
					of his mother and father-in-law. He married Agrippina, the daughter of Marcus
					Agrippa, and granddaughter of Caecilius Atticus, a Roman knight, the same person
					to whom Cicero has addressed so many epistles. After having by her his son
					Drusus, he was obliged to part with her, A.U.C. 744 
					though she retained his affection, and was again pregnant, to make way for
					marrying Augustus's daughter Julia. But this he did with extreme reluctance;
					for, besides having the warmest attachment to Agrippina, he was disgusted with
					the conduct of Julia, who had made indecent advances to him during the lifetime
					of her former husband; and that she was a woman of loose character, was the
					general opinion. At divorcing Agrippina he felt the deepest regret; and upon
					meeting her afterwards, he looked after her with eyes so passionately expressive
					of affection, that care was taken she should never again come in his sight. At
					first, however, he lived quietly and happily with Julia; but a rupture soon
					ensued, which became so violent, that after the loss of their son, the pledge of
					their union, who was born at Aquileia 
					and died in infancy, A.U.C. 735 he never would sleep
					with her more. He lost his brother Drusus in Germany , and brought his body to Rome , travelling all the way on foot before it. When he first applied himself to civil affairs, he defended the several causes of
					king Archelaus, the Trallians, and the Thessalians, before Augustus, who sat as
					judge at the trials. He addressed the senate on behalf of the Laodiceans, the
					Thyatireans, and Chians, who had suffered greatly by an earthquake, and implored
					relief from Rome . He prosecuted
					Fannius Caepio, who had been engaged in a conspiracy with Varro Mursena against
					Augustus, and procured sentence of condemnation against him. Amidst all this, he
					had besides to superintend two departments of the administration, that of
					supplying the city with corn, which was then very scarce, and that of clearing
					the houses of correction See before, in the reign of
						Augustus, c. xxxii. throughout Italy , the masters of which had fallen under the odious
					suspicion of seizing and keeping confined, not only travellers, but those whom
					the fear of being obliged to serve in the army had driven to seek refuge in such
					places. He made his first campaign, as a military tribune, in the Cantabrian war. A. U. C. 728. Afterwards he led an army into the
						East, A.U.C. 734 where he restored the kingdom
					of Armenia to Tigranes; and seated on a
					tribunal, put a crown upon his head. He likewise recovered from the Parthians
					the standards which they had taken from Crassus. He next governed, for nearly a
					year, the province of Gallia Comata, which was then in great disorder, on
					account of the incursions of the barbarians, and the feuds of the chiefs. He
					afterwards commanded in the several wars against the Rhaetians, Vindelicians,
					Pannonians, and Germans. In the Rhaetian and Vindelician wars, he subdued the
					nations in the Alps ; and in the
					Pannonian wars the Bruci, and the Dalmatians. In the German war, he transplanted
					into Gaul forty thousand of the enemy
					who had submitted, and assigned them lands near the banks of the Rhine . For these actions, he entered the city
					with an ovation, but riding in a chariot, and is said by some to have been the
					first that ever was honoured with this distinction. He filled early the
					principal offices of state; and passed through the quaestorship, A.U.C. 737 praetorship, A.U.C.
						741 and consulates A.U.C. 747 almost
					successively. After some interval, he was chosen consul a second time, and held
					the tribunitian authority during five years. Surrounded by all this prosperity, in the prime of life and in excellent health,
					he suddenly formed the resolution of withdrawing to a greater distance from
						 Rome . A.U.C.
						748 It is uncertain whether this was the result of disgust for his
					wife, whom he neither durst accuse nor divorce, and the connection with whom
					became every day more intolerable; or to prevent that indifference towards him,
					which his constant residence in the city might produce; or in the hope of
					supporting and improving by absence his authority in the state, if the public
					should have occasion for his service. Some are of opinion, that as Augustus's
					sons were now grown up to years of maturity, he voluntarily relinquished the
					possession he had long enjoyed of the second place in the government, as Agrippa
					had done before him; who, when M. Marcellus was advanced to public offices,
					retired to Mitylene , that he might not
					seem to stand in the way of his promotion, or in any respect lessen him by his
					presence. The same reason likewise Tiberius gave afterwards for his retirement;
					but his pretext at this time was, that he was satiated with honours, and
					desirous of being relieved from the fatigue of business; requesting therefore
					that he might have leave to withdraw. And neither the earnest entreaties of his
					mother, nor the complaint of his father-in-law made even in the senate, that he
					was deserted by him, could prevail upon him to alter his resolution. Upon their
					persisting in the design of detaining him, he refused to take any sustenance for
					four days together. At last, having obtained permission, leaving his wife and
					son at Rome , he proceeded to
						 Ostia , Ostia , at the mouth of the
							 Tiber , about thirteen miles
						from the city, was founded by Ancus Martins. Being the port of a city like
							 Rome , it could not fail to
						become opulent; and it was a place of much resort, ornamented with fine
						edifices, and the environs " never failing of pasture in the summer time,
						and in the winter covered with roses and other flowers." The port having
						been filled up with the depositions of the Tiber , it became deserted, and is now abandoned to misery
						and malaria. The bishopric of Ostia being the oldest in the Roman church, its bishop has
						always retained some peculiar privileges. without exchanging a word
					with those who attended him, and having enbraced but very few persons at
					parting.