Gustav Klimt Schubert at the Piano paintingGustav Klimt Portrait of Margaret Stonborough Wittgenstei paintingGustav Klimt Malcesine on Lake Garda painting
screaming at the top of his voice, his lips white with foam-soap-suds, probably.
The people of Rome were still happy enough. Caligula continued giving them a good time with theatrical shows and sword-fights and wild-beasts hunts and chariot-races and largesse thrown from the Oration Platform or from the upper windows of the Palace. What he contracted or dissolved, or what courtiers he murdered, they did not much care. He was never satisfied unless every seat in the theatre or Circus was occupied and all the gangways crowded; so whenever there was a performance he postponed all lawsuits and suspended all mourning to give nobody any excuse for not attending. He made several other innovations. He allowed people to bring cushions to sit on and in hot weather to wear straw hats, and to come barefooted-even senators, who were supposed to set an example of austerity.
When I eventually managed to visit Capua for a few days. for the first time for nearly a year, almost the first thing Calpurnia asked me was
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