Excerpt from The Son of the Prefect: A Story of the Reign of Tiberius NO wonder then that his great dining hall was splen didly furnished and adorned. NO wonder that its ar ray of Objects was bewildering to the eye. Yet beautiful, rarely beautiful, were many of these costly possessions. There were bronze castings on the chairs and the triclinium that only a true artist could have designed; there were statues and busts of the most perfect Grecian workmanship. And the paintings showed that fine sense of form and color which is to be seen in the wall paintings at Pompeii and in the House of Livia on the Palatine. They all had a com mon theme. They traced out the wanderings of Ulysses, and showed with the same admirable touch the grotesque and gigantic Cyclops and the hound ex piring at the sight of his Old master. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.