TACITUS Tacitus describes how on the frontiers Germanicus feared for the safety of his wife and son, Caligula, and sent them into hiding. "A wretched group of women marched away: the commander's wife, a refugee, clutching her small son to her breast, surrounded by the weeping wives of his comrades. The wailing was noticed by the soldiers, who came out of their tents. They felt shame and pity and thought of her forefathers, and of her son; a child born and raised among the tents. They begged; they insisted that she come back. (Tacitus, Annales I.40-41)