A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

a senator, proposed in A. D. 32 that Tiberius should choose twenty senators, who should accompany him as a bodyguard as often as he went into the senate, a proposition which only made Togonius ridiculous, as it was well known that Tiberius intended never to return to Rome. (Tac. Ann. 6.2; D. C. 58.17.)