Claude Lorrain The Rest on the Flight into Egypt paintingClaude Lorrain Landscape with Shepherds paintingPeter Paul Rubens Virgin and Child painting
found for Germanicus at the time of the mutiny: he had heard the story from his mother. He did not allow me to refuse it and said that if I made any further protest he would insist on paying me the accumulated interest too: it was a debt he owed his father's memory. When I told Calpumia about my new wealth she seemed more sorry than pleased. "It won't bring you any luck," she said. "Much better be modestly well off, as you have been, than run the risk of having your whole fortune stripped from you by informers on a charge of treason." Calpumia was Acte's successor, you remember. She was very shrewd for her years-seventeen.
I said, "What do you mean, Calpumia? Informers? There are no such things in Rome now, and no treason-trials."
She said; "I didn't hear that the informers were packed off in the same boat with the Spintrians." (For Tiberias's painted "orphans" had been banished by Caligula. As a public gesture of pure-mindedness he had sent the whole
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