At Rome , upon the first news of his
					sickness, the city was thrown into great consternation and grief, waiting
					impatiently for farther intelligence; when suddenly, in the evening, a report,
					without any certain author, was spread, that he was recovered; upon which the
					people flocked with torches and victims to the Capitol, and were in such haste
					to pay the vows they had made for his recovery, that they almost broke open the
					doors. Tiberius was roused from out of his sleep with the noise of the people
					congratulating one another, and singing about the streets, Salva Roma, salva patria, salvus est Germanicus, 
					 Rome is safe,
							our country safe, for our Germanicus is safe. But when
					certain intelligence of his death arrived, the mourning of the people could
					neither be assuaged by consolation, nor restrained by edicts, and it continued
					during the holidays in the month of December. The atrocities of the subsequent
					times contributed much to the glory of Germanicus, and the endearment of his
					memory; all people supposing, and with reason, that the fear and awe of him had
					laid a restraint upon the cruelty of Tiberius, which broke out soon
					afterwards. Germanicus married Agrippina, the daughter of Marcus Agrippa and Julia , by whom he had nine children, two of
					whom died in their infancy, and another a few years after; a sprightly boy,
					whose effigy, in the character of a Cupid, Livia set up in the temple of Venus in the Capitol. Augustus also placed 'another statue of
					him in his bed-chamber, and used to kiss it as often as he entered the
					apartment. The rest survived their father; three daughters, Agrippina,
						 Drusilla , and -Livilla, who were
					born in three successive years; and as many sons, Nero , Drusus, and Caius Caesar. Nero and Drusus, at the accusation of Tiberius, were declared
					public.enemies. Caius Caesar was born on the day before the calends [31st August] of September,
					at the time his father and Caius Fonteius Capito were consuls. A.U.C. 765 But where he was born is rendered
					uncertain from the number of places which are said to have given him birth.
					Cneius Lentulus Gaetulicus It does not appear that
						Gaetulicus wrote any historical work, but Martial, Pliny, and others,
						describe him as a respectable poet. says that he was born at
						 Tibur ; Pliny the younger, in the
					country of the Treviri , at a village
					called Ambiatinus, above Confluentes; Supra Confluentes;
						The German tribe here mentioned occupied the country between the Rhine and the Meuse , and gave their name to Treves ( Treviri ),
						its chief town. Coblentz had its ancient name of Confluentes, from its
						standing at the junction of the two rivers The exact site of the village in
						which Caligula was born is not known. Cliverius conjectures that it may be
						Cafelle. and he alleges, as a proof of it, that altars are there
					shown with this inscription: "For Agrippina's child-birth." Some verses which
					were published in his reign, intimate that he was born in the winter quarters of
					the legions, In castris natus, patriis nutritius in
							armis, Jam designati principis omen erat. 
					 Born in the camp, and trained in every toil Which taught his sire the haughtiest foes to foil; Destin'd he seem'd by fate to raise his name, And rule the empire with Augustan fame. I find in the public
					registers that he was born at Antium . Pliny charges Gaetulicus as guilty of an arrant forgery,
					merely to soothe the vanity of a conceited young prince, by giving him the
					lustre of being born in a city sacred to Hercules; and says that he advanced
					this false assertion with the more assurance, because, the year before the birth
					of Caius, Germanicus had a son of the same name born at Tibur ; concerning whose amiable childhood
					and premature death I have already spoken. Chap.
						vii. Dates clearly prove that Pliny is mistaken; for the writers of
					Augustus's history all agree, that Germanicus, at the expiration of his
					consulship, was sent into Gaul , after
					the birth of Caius. Nor will the inscription upon the altar serve to establish
					Pliny's opinion; because Agrippina was delivered of two daughters in that
					country, and any child-birth, without regard to sex, is called puerperium, as
					the ancients used to call girs puerat, and boys puelli. There is also extant a
					letter written by Augustus, a few months before his death, to his granddaughter
					Agrippina, about the same Caius (for there was then no other child of hers
					living under that name). He writes as follows: "I gave orders yesterday for
					Talarius and Asellius to set out on their journey towards you, if the gods
					permit, with your child Caius, upon the fifteenth of the calends of June [I8th
					May]. I also send with him a physician of mine, and I wrote to Germanicus that
					he may retain him if he pleases. Farewell, my dear Agrippina, and take what care
					you can to come safe and well to your Germanicus." I imagine it is sufficiently
					evident that Caius could not be born at a place to which he was carried from The
					City when almost two years 'old. The same considerations must likewise
					invalidate the evidence of the verses, and the rather, because the author is
					unknown. The only authority, therefore, upon which we can depend in this matter,
					is that of the acts, and the public register; especially as he always preferred
						 Antium to every other place of
					retirement, and entertained for it all that fondness which is commonly attached
					to one's native soil. It is said, too, that, upon his growing weary of the city,
					he designed to have transferred thither the seat of empire. It was to the jokes of the soldiers in the camp that he owed the name of
						Caligula, The name was derived from Caliga, a kind of
						boot, studded with nails, used by the common soldiers in the Roman
						army. he having been brought up among them in the dress of a common
					soldier. How much his education amongst them recommended him to their favour and
					affection, was sufficiently apparent in the mutiny upon the death of Augustus,
					when the mere sight of him appeased their fury, though it had risen to a great
					height. For they persisted in it, until they observed that he was sent away to a
					neighbouring city, According to Tacitus, who gives an
						interesting account of these occurrences, Treves was the place of refuge to which the young Caius was
						conveyed.-Annal. i. to secure him against all danger. Then, at last,
					they began to relent, and, stopping the chariot in which he was conveyed,
					earnestly deprecated the odium to which such a proceeding would expose them. He likewise attended his father in his expedition to Syria . After his return, he lived first with his mother, and,
					when she was banished, with his great-granrmother, Livia Augusta, in praise of
					whom, after her decease, though then only a boy, he pronounced a funeral oration
					in the Rostra. He was then transferred to the family of his grandmother Antonia,
					and afterwards, in the twentieth year of his age, being called by Tiberius to
						 Capri , he in one and the same day
					assumed the manly habit, and shaved his beard, but without receiving any of the
					honours which had been paid to his brothers on a similar oeeasien. While he
					remained in that island, many insidious artifices were practised, to extort from
					him complaints against Tiberius, but by his circumspection he avoided falling
					into the snare. In c. liv. of TIBERIUS, we have seen that
						his brothers Drusus and Nero fell a
						sacrifice to these artifices. He affected to take no more notice of
					the ill-treatment of his relations, than if nothing had befallen them. With
					regard to his own sufferings, he seemed utterly insensible of them, and behaved
					with such obsequiousness to his grandfather Tiberius, who
						was the adopted father of Germanicus. and all about him, that it was
					justly said of him, "There never was a better servant, nor a worse master."