Vincent van Gogh Almond Branches in Bloom painting
Joseph Mallord William Turner The Grand Canal Venice painting
Not Augustus, fool," Haterius would say in a stage whisper. "He's refused that title a dozen times. He only uses it when he writes letters to other monarchs."
They had one trick which annoyed Tiberius more than any other. If he made a show of modesty when thanked by the Senate for performing some national service-such as undertaking to complete the temples which Augustus had left unfinished-they would praise his honesty in not taking credit for his
John Singer Sargent El Jaleo painting
mother's work, and congratulate Livia on having so dutiful a son. When they saw that there was nothing that Tiberius hated so much as hearing Livia praised they kept it up. Haterius even suggested that just as the Greeks were called by their fathers' names, so Tiberius should be named after his mother and that it should be a crime to call him other than Tiberius Liviades-or perhaps Livigena would be the more correct Latin form. Callus found another weak spot in Tiberius's armour, and that was his hatred of any mention of his
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