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C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Augustus (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 70 (search)
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His malady proceeded from diarrhoea; notwithstanding which, he went round the coast of Campania, and the adjacent islands, and spent four days in that of Capri; where he gave himself up entirely to repose and relaxation.
Happening to sail by the bay of Puteoli, the passengers and mariners aboard a ship of Alexandria,
"Puteoli"-" he Greeks the Roman dress and language. He likewise constantly attended to see the boys perform their exercises, according to an ancient custom still continued at Capri. He gave them likewise an entertainment in his presence, and not only permitted, but required from them the utmost freedom in jesting, and scrambling for fruit, victuals, and other things which he threw amongst them. In a word, he indulged himself in all the ways of amusement he could contrive. He called an island near Capri, *)aprago/polis, "The City of the Do-littles," from the indolent life which several of his party led there. A favourite of his, one Masgabas,Masgabas seems, by his name
After he had gone round Campania, and dedicated the capitol at Capua, and a temple to Augustus at Nola,Augustus died at Nola, a city in Campania. See c. lviii. of his life.
which he made the pretext of his journey, he retired to Capri; being greatly delighted with the island, because it was accessible only by a narrow beach, being on all sides surrounded with rugged cliffs, of a stupendous height, and by a deep sea.
But immediately, the people of Rome being extremely clamorous for his return, on account of a disaster at Fidenae,
Fidenae stood in a bend of the Tiber, near its junction with the Anio.
There are few traces of it remaining.
Where upwards of twenty thousand persons had been killed by the fall of the amphitheatre, during a public spectacle of gladiators, he crossed over again to the continent, and gave all people free access to him; so much the more, because, at his departure from the city, he had caused it to be proclaimed that no one should address him, and had declined
In his retreat at Capri,Capri, the luxurious retreat and scene of the debaucheries of the Roman emperors, is an island off the southern point of the bay of Naples, about twelve miles in circumference.
he also contrived an apartment containing couches, and adapted to the secret practice of lewdness, where he entertained companies of disreputable girls.
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He had several chambers set round with pictures and statues in the most suggestive attitudes, and furniCapri, the luxurious retreat and scene of the debaucheries of the Roman emperors, is an island off the southern point of the bay of Naples, about twelve miles in circumference.
he also contrived an apartment containing couches, and adapted to the secret practice of lewdness, where he entertained companies of disreputable girls.
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He had several chambers set round with pictures and statues in the most suggestive attitudes, and furnished with the books of Elephantis, that none might want a pattern for the execution of any project that was prescribed him.
He likewise contrived recesses in woods and groves for the gratification of young persons of both sexes, in caves and hollow rocks.
So that he was publicly and commonly called, by an abuse of the name of the island, Caprineus.The name of the island having a double meaning, and signifying also a goat.
A few days after his arrival at Capri, a fisherman coming up to him unexpectedly, when he was desirous of privacy, and presenting him with a large mullet, he ordered the man's face to be scrubbed with the fish; being terrified with the thought of his having been able to creep upon him from the back of the island, over such rugged and steep rocks.
The man, while undergoing the punishment, expressing his joy that he had not likewise offered him a large crab which he had also taken, he ordered his face to be farther lacerated with its claws.
He put to death one of the pretorian guards, for having stolen a peacock out of his orchard.
In one of his journeys, his litter being obstructed by some bushes, he ordered the officer whose duty it was to ride on and examine the road, a centurion of the first cohorts, to be laid on his face upon the ground, and scourged almost to death.
During the whole time of his seclusion at
Capri, twice only he made an effort to visit Rome.
Once he came in a galley as far as the gardens near the Naumachia, but placed guards along the banks of the Tiber, to keep off all who should offer to come to meet him.
The second time he travelled on the Appian way,
So called from Appius Claudius, the Censor, one of Tiberius's ancestors, who constructed it. It took a direction southward from Rome, through Campania to 'Brundusium, starting from what is the present Porta di San Sebastiano, from which the road to Naples takes its departure.
as far as the seventh mile-stone from the city, but he immediately returned, without entering it, having only taken a view of the walls at a distance.
For what reason he did not disembark in his first excursion, is uncertain; but in the last, he was deterred from entering the city by a prodigy.
He was in the habit of diverting himself with a snake, and upon going to feed it with his own hand, according to c
Meanwhile, finding, upon looking over the acts of the senate, "that some person under prosecution had been discharged, without being brought to a hearing," for he had only written cursorily that they had been denounced by an informer; he complained in a great rage that he was treated with contempt, and resolved at all hazards to return to Capri; not daring to attempt any thing until he found himself in a place of security.
But being detained by storms, and the increasing violence of his disorder, he died shortly afterwards, at a villa formerly belonging to Lucullus, in the seventy-eighth year of his age,
Tacitus agrees with Suetonius as to the age of Tiberius at the time
of his death.
Dio states it more precisely, as being seventy-seven years, four months, and nine days.
and the twenty-third of his reign, upon the seventeenth of the calends of April [i6th March], in the consulship of Cneius Acerronius Proculus and Caius Pontius Niger.
Some think that a slow-consuming poison was give
Upon his last birth-day, he had brought a full-sized statue of the Timenian Apollo from Syracuse, a work of exquisite art, intending to place it in the library of the new temple;In the temple of the Palatine Apollo. See AUGUSTUS, c. xxix.
but he dreamt that the god appeared to him in the night, and assured him "that his statue could not be erected by him."
A few days before he died, the Pharos at Capri was thrown down by an earthquake.
And at Misenum, some embers and live coals, which were brought in to warm his apartment, went out, and after being quite cold, burst out into a flame again towards evening, and continued burning very brightly for several hours.