Junia too, the niece of Cato,
wife of Caius Cassius and sister of Marcus Brutus, died this year, the
sixty-fourth after the battle of Philippi. Her will was the theme of much
popular criticism, for, with her vast wealth, after having honourably
mentioned almost every nobleman by name, she passed over the emperor.
Tiberius took the omission graciously, and did not forbid a panegyric before
the Rostra with the other customary funeral honours. The busts of twenty
most illustrious families were borne in the procession, with the names of
Manlius, Quinctius, and others of equal rank. But Cassius and Brutus
outshone them all, from the very fact that their likenesses were not to be
seen.
