Suetonius, Tiberius, ed. J. Eugene Reed, Alexander Thomson (Translator), 43

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In his retreat at Capri ,¹ he also contrived an apartment containing couches, and adapted to the secret practice of lewdness, where he entertained companies of disreputable girls. ² He had several chambers set round with pictures and statues in the most suggestive attitudes, and furnished with the books of Elephantis, that none might want a pattern for the execution of any project that was prescribed him. He likewise contrived recesses in woods and groves for the gratification of young persons of both sexes, in caves and hollow rocks. So that he was publicly and commonly called, by an abuse of the name of the island, Caprineus.³

Tiberius. Suetonius. ed. J. Eugene Reed, Alexander Thomson (Translator). Philadelphia. 1883.

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Tiberius (English) (Suetonius. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Thomson, Alexander, M.D, translator; Reed, J.E., editor. Philadelphia: Gebbie, 1883.)

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Tiberius Perseus (Suetonius. De Vita Caesarum Libri VIII. Ihm, Max, editor; Leipzig: Teubner, 1908.) — 43.1 focus

[1] secessu uero Caprensi etiam sellaria excogitauit, sedem arcanarum libidinum, in quam undique conquisiti puellarum et exoletorum greges monstrosique concubitus repertores, quos spintrias appellabat, triplici serie conexi, in uicem incestarent coram ipso, ut aspectu deficientis libidines excitaret.

[2] cubicula plurifariam disposita tabellis ac sigillis lasciuissimarum picturarum et figurarum adornauit librisque Elephantidis instruxit, ne cui in opera edenda exemplar impe tratae schemae deesset. in siluis quoque ac nemoribus passim Venerios locos commentus est prost rantisque per antra et cauas rupes ex utriusque sexus pube Paniscorum et Nympharum habitu, quae palam iam et uulgo nomine insulae abutentes 'Caprineum' dictitabant.

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Tiberius

1. Capri , the luxurious retreat and scene of the debaucheries of the Roman emperors, is an island off the southern point of the bay of Naples , about twelve miles in circumference.

2. * * * Thomson omits material here * * *

3. The name of the island having a double meaning, and signifying also a goat.

Suetonius Tiberius 43

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