Note 187
It was a guardian who had poisoned his ward.
The crime was atrocious: yet the punishment is reckoned by
Suetonius (c. 9) among the acts in which Galba showed
himself acer, vehemens, et in delictis coercendis
immodicus.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 44