Tiberius was not your upstanding role model for young Romans. He was fond of vacationing on Capri because he could indulge his penchant for pretty boys without all the finger-pointing and whispering that would have incited in Rome.

True enough. And yet, withall, he was actually well regarded as an army officer and actually began the fashion for emperors, militarily-trained or not, to wear military uniforms. Something which continues to this day, I suppose.

Of course, indulging in little boys was also a fine old army tradition, particularly, I understand, in Germania, where the women weren't, shall we say, all that safely compliant.


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