eBooks - History - World - C. Suetonious Tranquillus - The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars: Lives Of The Poets Volume 14
The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars: Lives Of The Poets Volume 14 eBook
by C. Suetonious Tranquillus
|
Platforms
Windows Vista / XP / 2000, Mac OS X, Sony Reader Features
|
Availability:
Download Now Price: $2.39
|
The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars: Lives Of The Poets Volume 14 Summary
| It is reported that he was immoderately addicted to venery. [For he is said to have had obscene pictures so disposed in a bedchamber lined with mirrors, that, whichever way he looked, lascivious images might present themselves to his view.] [971] He lived for the most part in the retirement of his farm [972], on the confines of the Sabine and Tiburtine territories, and his house is shewn in the neighbourhood of a little wood not far from Tibur. Some Elegies ascribed to him, and a prose Epistle apparently written to commend himself to Mecaenas, have been handed down to us; but I believe that neither of them are genuine works of his; for the Elegies are commonplace, and the Epistle is wanting in perspicuity, a fault which cannot be imputed to his style. |
|
|
eBooks - Titles - Authors - History - World - C. Suetonious Tranquillus - The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars: Lives Of The Poets Volume 14