ARRUNTIUS.
Excellent wolf!
Now he is full he howls. [Aside.]
SEJANUS.
Cæsar doth wrong
His dignity and safety thus to mourn
The deserv’d end of so profest a traitor,
And doth, by this his lenity, instruct
Others as factious to the like offence.
TIBERIUS.
The confiscation merely of his state
Had been enough.
ARRUNTIUS.
O, that was gaped for then? [Aside.]
VARRO.
Remove the body.
SEJANUS.
Let citation Go out for Sosia.
GALLUS.
Let her be proscribed:
And for the goods, I think it fit that half
Go to the treasure, half unto the children.
LEPIDUS.
With leave of Cæsar, I would think that fourth,
The which the law doth cast on the informers,
Should be enough; the rest go to the children.
Wherein the prince shall shew humanity,
And bounty; not to force them by their want,
Which in their parents’ trespass they deserv’d,
To take ill courses.
TIBERIUS.
It shall please us.
ARRUNTIUS.
Ay,
Out of necessity. This Lepidus
Is grave and honest, and I have observed
A moderation still in all his censures.