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On the Embassy to Gaius
On the Embassy to Gaius
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In his "On the Embassy to Gaius." Philo gives an account of the murders perpetrated by Gaius Caesar against those who were near to him by reason of kinship or influence.
Among his first victims was Macro, a man who had befriended Gaius continually in the face of the distrust of Tiberius, and so had helped him to secure the throne. After Gaius became Emperor, Macro pursued him with occasional advice and admonition — a course which at length became irksome to Gaius and led him to put Macro to death.
The people, despite the number of eminent men whom Gaius was removing, tried to make excuses for him at first, and yielding to the prejudice against Macro which Gaius had deliberately sought to create. They said that Macro was "puffed up beyond measure," and that "he did not thoroughly grasp the Delphic inscription. For what could have made him change the relative positions of Gaius and himself so as to virtually make himself ruler and Gaius his subject?"
Whether Delphic inscription was actually on the lips of the people on the occasion of this incident, or whether it merely came spontaneously to the pen of Philo in writing the account in his own way, makes little difference. The setting naturally recalled the maxim in either case.
Among his first victims was Macro, a man who had befriended Gaius continually in the face of the distrust of Tiberius, and so had helped him to secure the throne. After Gaius became Emperor, Macro pursued him with occasional advice and admonition — a course which at length became irksome to Gaius and led him to put Macro to death.
The people, despite the number of eminent men whom Gaius was removing, tried to make excuses for him at first, and yielding to the prejudice against Macro which Gaius had deliberately sought to create. They said that Macro was "puffed up beyond measure," and that "he did not thoroughly grasp the Delphic inscription. For what could have made him change the relative positions of Gaius and himself so as to virtually make himself ruler and Gaius his subject?"
Whether Delphic inscription was actually on the lips of the people on the occasion of this incident, or whether it merely came spontaneously to the pen of Philo in writing the account in his own way, makes little difference. The setting naturally recalled the maxim in either case.
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