Excerpt from The Works of Tacitus, Vol. 2
For Messalina, implacable towards Valerius Asiaticus, one twice Consul, whom he believed to have been Popp?a's adulterer, and equally panting after his fine gardens, begun by Lucullus, but by him beautified with signal magnificence, suborned Suilius to accuse both him and her. In the plot was joined Sosibius, Tutor to Britannicus, who, under the mask of zeal, was to warn Claudius, "that mighty wealth in private hands was ever mischievous and threatening of to Princes. In the assassination of Caligula, Asiaticus had been the principal director, nor feared to avow it in a public congregation of the people, nor even to claim the glory of the parricide: hence his popularity and renown in Rome; insomuch that his purpose of withdrawing and putting himself at the head of the armies, was already a prevailing rumour through all the Provinces; for that being born at Vienne, and supported there by numerous and powerful families, all his own relations, it depended upon his pleasure to excite an insurrection of his countrymen the Gauls." This sufficed Claudius, who, in order to seize him, instantly dispatched away Crispinus, Captain of the Praetorian guards, with a body of soldiers, as if a war had been robe crushed. He was found at Bai, and hurried to Rome in chains.
Neither was it indulged him to be heard by the Senate; he was privately tried in a chamber in the presence of Meilalina. Suilius charged him "with, corrupting the soldiery, as having by money and abominable pleasures engaged them in his interest, and prepared them for every the most flagrant iniquity; with his adulterous amours with Popp?a, and with surrendering his person to unnatural defilements."
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