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The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
- In a chapter of the book he tells how, crowned with laurel, lest lightning might strike him, he had sat, as Tiberius, in a garden at Capri, reading the shameful books of Elephantis, while dwarfs and peacocks strutted round him and the flute-player mocked the swinger of the censer; and, as Caligula, had caroused with the green-shirted jockeys in their stables, and supped in an ivory manger with a jewel-frontleted horse; and, as Domitian, had wandered through a corridor lined with marbleā¦†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(Tiberius as in: the Roman emperor) son-in-law of Augustus who became second Roman Emperor; after a brilliant military career, a suspicious and tyrannical emperor (42 BC to AD 37)