Where the burdens of other cures are cast aside just as

I am about to tell you how the internal conspiracies, concealed but not hidden, troubled the mind of Claudius, which had hitherto been disturbed by savage fury, and how he, neither solemnly inquiring into nor discerning the faith of those who had been placed or appointed, nor being able to distinguish the wicked from the innocent, as if driven out of the judgment of the law by a storm, and remaining silent in the legitimate defense of the causes, was occupied with the sequestration of the plunder of the slaughter, the abduction of heads and goods, and their universal distribution throughout the eastern provinces, which I think it now opportune to review, excluding Mesopotamia, as the Parthian war was then said to be raging, and Egypt, which I have necessarily set aside for another time.