The tears of Lucius, not imperial tears.

I’ll heap on her the vast, too vast arrears

Of filial love. The Senate shall proclaim

My mother regnant with me—write her name

Beside Augustus with the demigods!

Yea, lictors shall attend her with the rods,

And massed Praetorians tramp the rabble down

Whene’er her chariot flashes through the town!

One should be kind to mothers.

Anicetus