Thursday, October 23, 2008

Claude Monet The women in the Garden painting

Claude Monet The women in the Garden paintingClaude Monet Still Life With Melon paintingFabian Perez white and red painting
should have done, and if not Tiberius, then Nero, as his heir. The Senate had decreed an arch in Livia's memory-the first time in the history of Rome that a woman had been so honoured. Tiberius allowed this decree to stand but promised to build the arch at his own expense: and then neglected to build it. As for Livia's will, he inherited the greater part of her fortune as her natural heir, but she had left as much of it as she was legally permitted to members of her own household and other trusted dependents. He did not pay anybody a single one of her bequests. I was to have benefited to the extent of twenty thousand gold pieces. COULD NEVER HAVE THOUGHT IT POSSIBLE THAT I WOULD miss Livia when she died. When I was a child I used secretly, night after night, to pray to the Infernal Gods to carry her off. And now I would have offered the richest sacrifices I could find-unblemished white bulls and desert antelopes and ibises and flamingoes by the dozen-to have had her back again. For it was clear that it had long been only the fear of his mother that had kept

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