ductusque in carcerem Priscus ac statim exanimatus.
Translation :
Priscus was dragged off to prison and instantly put to death.
Edition :
Annales ab excessu divi Augusti. Cornelius Tacitus. Charles Dennis Fisher. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1906.
Complete Works of Tacitus. Tacitus. Alfred John Church. William Jackson Brodribb. Sara Bryant. edited for Perseus. New York. : Random House, Inc. Random House, Inc. reprinted 1942.
Remark :
titel: Drusus the younger had merely fallen ill and Clutorius Priscus had prepared a poem in advance, hoping to gain fame if Drusus died. For more context and the senate proceedings, see 3.49-50. long-term consequence: Tiberius disapproved of the quick execution, causing the senate to change the law so that a nine-day grace period would be given before execution (3.51).
