On the day of the marriage Silanus committed suicide, having up to
that time prolonged his hope of life, or else choosing that day to heighten
the popular indignation. His sister, Calvina, was banished from
Italy. Claudius further added that sacrifices after the
ordinances of King Tullius, and atonements were to be offered by the
pontiffs in the grove of Diana, amid general ridicule at the idea of
devising penalties and propitiations for incest at such a time. Agrippina,
that she might not be conspicuous only by her evil deeds, procured for
Annæus Seneca a remission of his exile, and with it the
prætorship. She thought this would be universally welcome, from the
celebrity of his attainments, and it was her wish too for the boyhood of
Domitius to be trained under so excellent an instructor, and for them to
have the benefit of his counsels in their designs on the throne. For Seneca,
it was believed, was devoted to Agrippina from a remembrance of her
kindness, and an enemy to Claudius from a bitter sense of wrong.