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Then Nasica said to him,
‘What, then, if Tiberius had ordered them to set fire to the Capitol?’ Blossius at first replied that Tiberius would not have given such an order; but when the same question was put to him often and by many persons, he said:
‘If such a man as Tiberius had ordered such a thing, it would also have been right for me to do it; for Tiberius would not have given such an order if it had not been for the interest of the people.’
1 Well, then, Blossius was acquitted, and afterwards went to Aristonicus2 in Asia, and when the cause of Aristonicus was lost, slew himself.
1 For the story of Blossius, cf. Cicero, De am. 11. 37; Valerius Maximus, iv. 7. 1.
2 The pretender to the throne of Attalus Philometor (xiv. 1). He was defeated and taken prisoner by the Romans in 130 B.C.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. 10.
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