90-97.] Caius Caesar was the son of Germanicus and the elder Agrippina.
Germanicus was the bravest and most successful general, and one of the wisest and most virtuous men, of his day.

His wife Agrippina, in her fidelity, her chastity, her charity, her nobility of mind, was the very model of a Roman matron of the highest and purest stamp.

Strange that the son of such parents should have been one of the vilest, cruelest, and foulest of the human race.

So, however, it was; and it is a remarkable fact that scarcely one of the six children of this marriage displayed the virtues of their father and mother, while two of them, Caius Caesar and the younger Agrippina, lived to earn an exceptional infamy by their baseness and their crimes.

Possibly this unhappy result may have been partly due to the sad circumstances of their early education.