11. Study Questions Copy

The charge of poisoning 

The people would be likely to take matters into their own hands 

People felt as hostile to her as they did to her husband 

She started to distance herself from him. 

He wrote some letters, washed himself and was found in the morning with his throat slit, his sword lying beside him. 

Lines 85-87: ‘nam neque ambition militum neque inuria in provinciam ne contumeliae quidem adversum imperatorem’ 

It emphasises how completely abandoned he is: no Tiberius, no Plancina.