Claude Monet Snow at Argenteuil painting

Claude Monet Snow at Argenteuil paintingClaude Monet Poplars on the Banks of the Epte paintingClaude Monet Mountains at l'Esterel painting
Augustus had late in life made an edict against scurrilities too. The senator answered: "It was during your third year at Rhodes." Tiberius cried out, "My Lords, how can you permit this fellow to insult me so?" So the Senate actually condemned him to be thrown down the Tarpeian cliff, a punishment ordinarily reserved for the worst traitors-generals who sold battles to the enemy, and such-like.
Another man, a knight, was put to death for a tragedy about King Agamemnon in which queen, who murdered him in his bath, cried as she swung the axe:
"Know, bloody tyrant, 'tis no crime t'avenge my wrongs like this."
Tiberius said that he was intended by the character Agamemnon and that the line quoted was an incitement to assassinate him. So the tragedy, which everyone had laughed at because it was so lamely and wretchedly composed, won a sort of dignity by having all its copies called in and burned and its author executed.