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6But Germanicus, being afraid even so that they would fall to rioting again, invaded the enemy’s country and tarried there, giving the troops plenty of work and food in abundance at the expense of aliens.
2Thus, though Germanicus might have obtained the imperial power,—for he had the good will of absolutely all the Romans as well as of their subjects,—he refused it. For this Tiberius praised him and sent many pleasing messages both to him and to Agrippina; and yet he was not pleased with his conduct, but feared him all the more because he had won the attachment of the legions. 3For he assumed, from his own consciousness of saying one thing and doing another, that Germanicus’ real sentiments were not what they seemed, and hence he was suspicious of Germanicus and suspicious likewise of his wife, who was possessed of an ambition commensurate with her lofty lineage. 4Yet he displayed no sign of irritation toward them, but delivered many eulogies of Germanicus in the senate and also proposed that sacrifices should be offered in honour of the achievements of Germanicus just as in the case of those of Drusus. Also he bestowed upon the soldiers in Pannonia the same rewards as Germanicus had granted to his troops. 5For the future, however, he refused to release soldiers in the service outside of Italy until they had served the full twenty years.
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