Douglas Hofmann silver satin painting

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and an ugly sight he was, thin, stooping, bald, stiff-jointed, with an ulcered face patched with plasters-was to die within a very short time. Nobody could possibly have guessed that he was fated to live eleven years longer. This may have been because he never came nearer the City again than the suburbs. Well, anyway it was how it turned out.
Tiberius took with him to Capri a number of learned Greek professors, and a picked force of soldiers, including his German bodyguard, and Thrasyllus, and a number of painted strange-looking creatures of doubtful sex and, the most curious choice of all, Cocceius Nerva. Capri is an island in the Bay of Naples about three miles from the coast. Its climate is mild in winter and cool in summer. There is only one possible landing place, the rest of the island being protected by steep cliffs and impassable thickets. How Tiberius spent his leisure time here-when he was not discussing poetry and mythology with the Greeks, or law and with Nerva-is too revolting a story even for history, I will say no more than that he had brought with him a complete