. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . st years of his lifeseems to have been due to a kind of constitutional clouding of thespirits, which made him what the elder Pliny calls him, thegloomiest of mankind, and disposed him to brood over mysteriesand superstitions. As this gloom deepened his will grew weaker,his power tended to fall into the hands of unworthy instruments,terrors closed in around his mind, and his naturally clear visionwas perturbed. The change of masters had been anticipated by theRoman world with apprehension, but it was smo
. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . st years of his lifeseems to have been due to a kind of constitutional clouding of thespirits, which made him what the elder Pliny calls him, thegloomiest of mankind, and disposed him to brood over mysteriesand superstitions. As this gloom deepened his will grew weaker,his power tended to fall into the hands of unworthy instruments,terrors closed in around his mind, and his naturally clear visionwas perturbed. The change of masters had been anticipated by theRoman world with apprehension, but it was smootWyaccomplished. Tiberius was already invested with thenecessary powers, and it may even be that the senate wasnot permitted the satisfaction of giving a formal sanctionto his accession. Agrippa Postumus was put to death;but Livia may be reasonably regarded as the instigatorof this crime. Livia indeed expected to share the im-perial authority with her son. At first Tiberius allowedsome recognition to the claim; but he soon shook himself VOL. XX111 TIBET PLATE IV ka rr V / / HO* J* CUOU. ExplanatiGQ of Tihctaayames Ch»idaitt „_ . .4W* of- Tro^ Jong To-m Ch*i»g . Northern. Kiang R2?,er ChoorTso LaJu La, _ _ Pasa C^** .„ Kaffir or fiu«r TarjMQ. Stoffilft^ ptu:^ ftr Officuiit •? ^a ftr OfHcuih Tajxg />Zaut Gomba, iLmasUry, Taanpo . tvgtSZl. k r T I B —T 1 B 337 free, and later became estranged from his mother and heldno communication with her for jears before her death. Thehistory of Tiberiuss relations with other members of hisfamily is hardly less miserable. Perhaps with any othercommander than Germanicus the dangerous mutiny of thetroops on the Rhine which broke out soon after Tiberiussaccession would have ended in a march of the discontentedlegions ujion the capital. The perilous episode of Armininscaused the recall of Germanicus and his despatch to theEast on an honourable but comparatively inactive pride and passion of A
Size: 1880px × 1329px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidencyclopaedi, bookyear1902
