At the year's close Geminius, Celsus and Pompeius, Roman knights,
fell beneath a charge of conspiracy. Of these Caius
Geminius, by lavish
expenditure and a luxurious life, had been a friend of
Sejanus, but with
no serious result. Julius Celsus, a tribune, while in
confinement, loosened
his chain, and having twisted it around him, broke his
neck by throwing
himself in an opposite direction. Rubrius Fabatus was
put under surveillance,
on a suspicion that, in despair of the |