Jean Fragonard The Fountain of Love painting

Jean Fragonard The Fountain of Love paintingJean Fragonard The Confession of Love paintingJean Fragonard The Bolt painting
this was decorated too. He invited all his friends and relations to a banquet celebrating his return and made a great deal of disturbance: merely to show the people of Rome that he was not afraid of them and that he counted on the support of Tiberius and Livia. Tiberius had planned for Piso to be prosecuted in the ordinary Criminal Court by a certain senator who could be trusted to do it so clumsily, contradicting himself and neglecting to produce proper evidence in support of his charges, that the proceedings could only end in an acquittal. But Gennanicus's friends, especially the three senators who had been on his staff in Syria and had returned with Agrippina, opposed Tiberius's choice. Tiberius was forced in the end to judge the case himself, and in the Senate too, where Gennanicus's friends could count on all the support they needed. The Senate had voted a number of exceptional honours to Gennanicus's memory-cenotaphs, memorial arches, semi-divine rites-which Tiberius had not dared to veto.
Castor now returned once more from the Danube and, though an ovation (or lesser triumph) had been decreed him for his management of the Maroboduus affair, he entered the City on foot as a private citizen instead of in