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By Tacitus’ timeline, the sickness lasted under a month.Ī lingering sickness, bluish skin and foaming at the mouth – if Suetonius’ and Tacitus’ records are accurate – are the only three clues we have, with which to attempt to identify the cause of death.

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There is a hint that his condition improved yet again but, by then, he was physically exhausted and unable to sustain a full recovery. His ability to converse with his friends and family implies that he was not delirious. He writes that rumours of poisoning began to spread at that time. The first symptoms of sickness seem to have revealed themselves in late September.Īccording to Tacitus, Germanicus recovered but, just as quickly, he relapsed. Cornelius Tacitus puts the onset of Germanicus’ ill-health ( valetudo) to the moment he returned to Antioch from Egypt, which he toured in the Summer of AD 19. Writing at about the same time as Suetonius, P. Suetonius Tranquilus reports that Germanicus died of “a long drawn out disease”, adding that the visible signs after death were “bluish spots ( livores) that covered his entire body” and “foaming at the mouth ( spuma)” (Suetonius, Life of Caligula 3.2).īased on these symptoms, he deduced it was a poisoning – a verdict confirmed for him by the fact that, after the cremation in Antioch, Germanicus’ heart was found still intact among the charred bones, which, according to widely-held belief at that time, was a clear indicator of a drug or poison ( veneno).

This semi-nude figure was found at Gabii. There were many, however, who saw Piso as not operating alone, but under instructions of Tiberius to assassinate his adopted son.Īfter his death in AD 19, statues of Germanicus were erected all over the Roman Empire.

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Finally, he laid down his arms and agreed to return to Rome to face trial in AD 20. He did not return when Germanicus died and then, discovering he had been replaced, he cobbled together an army of renegades to retake his province. In early October, the governor and his wife slipped out of Antioch and boarded a waiting ship. Evidence of witchcraft at Epidaphnae pointed to a woman known to be an expert in poisons, who was a friend of Plancina, the governor’s wife. Reports state that even Germanicus believed Piso had poisoned him. The traditional interpretation, based on the account of Roman historian Tacitus, is that Tiberius had sent out Piso to be governor of Syria at the same time as Germanicus, so that he could check his son’s ambitions. He had been consul with Tiberius in 7 BC and held the proconsulships of Africa (3 BC) and Hispania Taraconensis (AD 9). 44/43 BC) was a proud, arrogant and irascible patrician. The relationship between him and Germanicus had been fraught from the start. Calpurnius Piso was the imperial legate governing Syria. Jonathan Eaton joins Tristan to talk through the rise of Emperor Vespasian.