Quando annona moderatior? Quando pax laetior? Diffusa
in Orientis Occidentisque tractus, quidquid meridiano aut septentrione
finitur, Pax Augusta, per omnes terrarum orbis angulos metu servat
immunes. Fortuita non civium tantummodo, sed Urbium damna, Principis
munificentia vindicat. Restitutae urbes Asiae: vindictae ab injuriis
magistratuum provinciae. Honor dignis paratissimus: poena in malos sera,
sed aliqua. Superatur aequitate gratia, ambitio virtute: nam facere recte
cives suos, Princeps optimus faciendo docet; cumque sit imperio maximus,
exemplo major est."
Tiberius reigned from the year 14, to the year 37. He died in the villa of
Lucullus, and he was buried in the mausoleum of the Caesars. The manner of
his death is variously related: Tacitus gives one account; Suetonius,
another. According to the last writer, he died like George II., alone,
having just risen from his bed; and he was thus found by his attendants:
"Seneca cum scribit subito vocatis ministris, ac nemine respondente,
consurrexisse; nec procul a lectulo, deficientibus viribus, concidisse."
Tiberius was tall, and beautiful.
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