But after the loss of his two sons, of whom Germanicus died in
Syria
, and Drusus at
Rome
, he withdrew into
Campania
;
1
at which time opinion and conversation were almost general, that he never would return, and would die soon. And both nearly turned out to be true. For indeed he never more came to
Rome
; and a few days after leaving it, when he was at a villa of his called the Cave, near
Terracina
,
2
during supper a great many huge stones fell from above, which killed several of the guests and attendants; but he almost hopelessly escaped.
Tiberius. Suetonius. ed. J. Eugene Reed, Alexander Thomson (Translator). Philadelphia. 1883.
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