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Piso, however, and his wife Planci'na, who is recorded as a woman of an implacable and cruel disposition, continued to defame him.

German'icus opposed only patience and condescension to all their invectives, and, with that gentleness which was peculiar to him, repaid their resentments by courtesy.16.He was not ignorant of their motives, and was rather willing to evade than oppose their enmity.

He, therefore, took a voyage into Egypt, under pretence of viewing the celebrated antiquities of that country; but, in reality, to avoid the machinations of Pi'so, and those of his wife, which were still more dangerous.17.Upon his return he fell sick, and, whether from a mind previously alarmed, or from more apparent marks of treachery, he sent to let Pi'so know, that he broke off all further connections.

Growing daily worse, his death appeared to be inevitable.
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