VELLEIUS PATERCULUS, History of Rome
[II.XXIII] Venitur ad tempus, in quo fuit plurimum metus. Quippe Caesar Augustus, cum Germanicum nepotem suum reliqua belli patraturum misisset in Germaniam, Tiberium autem filium missurus esset in Illyricum ad firmanda pace quae bello subegerat, prosequens eum simulque interfuturus athletarum certaminis ludicro quod eius honori sacratum a Neapolitanis est, processit in Campaniam. Quamquam iam motus imbecillitatis inclinataeque in deterius principia ualetudinis senserat, tamen obnitente ui animi prosecutus filium digressusque ab eo Beneuenti ipse Nolam petiit. Et, ingrauescente in dies ualetudine, cum sciret quis uolenti omnia post se salua remanere accersendus foret, festinanter reuocauit filium; ille ad patrem patriae expectato reuolauit maturius. Tum securum se Augustus praedicans circumfususque amplexibus Tiberii sui, commendans illi sua atque ipsius opera nec quidquam iam de fine, si fata poscerent, recusans, subrefectus primo conspectu alloquioque carissimi sibi spiritus, mox, cum omnem curam fata uincerent, in sua resolutus initia, Pompeio Apuleioque consulibus, septuagesimo et sexto anno, animam caelestem caelo reddidit.
[2.123] Now we come to the crisis which was weighted with the greatest foreboding. Augustus Caesar had dispatched his grandson Germanicus to Germany to put an end to such traces of the war that still remain, and was on the point of sending his son Tiberius to Illyricum to strengthen by the peace the regions he had subjugated in war. With the double purpose of escorting him and his way, and of being present at the athletic contest which the Neapolitans had established in his honor, he set out for Campania. Although he had already experienced symptoms of growing weakness and of a change in his health for the worse, his strong will resisted his infirmity and he accompanied his son. Parting from him at Beneventum he went to Nola. As his health grew daily worse, and he knew full well for whom he must send if he wished to leave everything secure behind him, he sent in haste for his son to return. Tiberius hurried back and reached the side of the father of his country before he was even expected. Then Augustus, asserting that his mind was now at ease, and, with the arms of his beloved Tiberius about him, commending to him the continuation of their joint work, expresses his readiness to meet the end if the fates should call him. He revived a little at seeing Tiberius and at hearing the voice of one so dear to him, but, ere long, since no care could withstand the fates, in his seventy-sixth year, in the consulship of Pompeius and Apuleius he was resolved into the elements from which he sprang and yielded up to heaven his divine soul.