Rome meanwhile being a scene of ceaseless bloodshed, Pomponius
Labeo, who was, as I have related, governor of Moesia, severed his veins
and let his life ebb from him. His wife, Paxaea, emulated her husband.
What made such deaths eagerly sought was dread of the executioner, and
the fact too that the condemned, besides forfeiture of their property,
were deprived of burial, while those who decided their fate themselves,
had their bodies interred, and their wills remained valid, a |