His death was kept secret until everything was settled relative to his successor.
Accordingly, vows were made for his recovery, and comedians were called to amuse
him, as it was pretended, by his own desire. He died upon the third of the ides
of October [13th October], in the consulship of Asinius Marcellus and Acilius
Aviola, in the sixty-fourth year of his age, and the fourteenth of his
reign.