suetonius 6.4
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- additum fabulae eosdem dracone e pulvino se proferente conterritos refugisse.
- in addition to the story, the same people were frightened to have fled by a serpent advancing out of a cushion.
- quae fabula exorta est deprensis in lecto eius circum cervicalia serpentis exuviis; quas tamen aureae armillae ex voluntate matris inclusas dextro brachio gestavit aliquamdiu ac taedio tandem maternae memoriae abiecit rursusque extremis suis rebus frustra
- the story was made apparent for the caught people after he picked out the snake's skin in his bed around the cushions; which nevertheless out of the mother's desire he wore on his right arm encased by a golden bracelet for some time and he abandoned it for weariness of his mother's remembrance and it turn he sought it in vain at the end of his days.
- gratia quidem et potentia revocatae resitutaeque matris usque eo floruit, ut emanaret in vulgus missos a Messalina uxore Claudi, qui eum merdiantem, quasi Britannici aemulum, strangularent
- by certain grace and the power of his restored and recalled mother, he flourished up to the point that it was known in public that people were sent by messalina, the wife of claudius, to strangle him as he napped as he the enemy of britannicus