The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, volume 03: Tiberius
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Human nature recoils with horror at the cruelties of this execrabletyrant, who, having first imbrued his hands in the blood of his ownrelations, proceeded to exercise them upon the public with indiscriminatefury. Neither age nor sex afforded any exemption from his insatiablethirst for blood. Innocent children were condemned to death, andbutchered in the presence of their parents; virgins, without any imputedguilt, were sacrificed to a similar destiny; but there being an ancientcustom of not str...angling females in that situation, they were firstdeflowered by the executioner, and afterwards strangled, as if anatrocious addition to cruelty could sanction the exercise of it. Fatherswere constrained by violence to witness the death of their own children;and even the tears of a mother, at the execution of her child, werepunished as a capital offence. Some extraordinary calamities, occasionedby accident, added to the horrors of the reign. A great number of houseson Mount Caelius were destroyed by fire; and by the fall of a temporarybuilding at Fidenae, erected for the purpose of exhibiting public shows, about twenty thousand persons were either greatly hurt, or crushed todeath in the rains.
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