Albert Bierstadt The Shore of the Turquoise Sea painting

Albert Bierstadt The Shore of the Turquoise Sea paintingDante Gabriel Rossetti Paolo and Francesca paintingDante Gabriel Rossetti A Sea Spell painting
Drusus had uttered while in prison. Never had such a painful document been read in the House before. It was clear from Drusus's remarks that he had been beaten and tortured and insulted by the captain himself, by common soldiers and even by slaves, and that he had very cruelly been given every day less and less food and drink, crumb by crumb, and drop by drop. Tiberius even ordered the captain to read Drusus's dying curse. It was a wild but well-composed imprecation, accusing Tiberius of miserliness, treachery, obscene filthiness and delight in torture, of murdering Germanicus and Postumus, and of a whole series of other crimes (most of which he had committed but none of which had ever been publicly mentioned before); he prayed the Cods that all the immeasurable suffering and distress that Tiberius had caused others should weigh upon him with increasing strength, waking or sleeping, night and day, for as long as he lived, should over-' whelm him in the hour of his death, and should commit him to everlasting torture in the day of infernal Judgment