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About this time Augustus had the sarcophagus containing Alexander the Great’s mummy removed from the mausoleum at Alexandria and, after a long look at its features, showed his veneration by crowning the head with a golden diadem and strewing flowers on the trunk. When asked, ‘Would you now like to visit the mausoleum of the Ptolemies?’ he replied, ‘I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.’
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Tiberius answered some governors, who had written to recommend an increase in the burden of provincial taxation, with ‘A good shepherd shears his flock; he does not flay them.’
Caligula never kissed the neck of his wife or mistress without saying, ‘And this beautiful throat will be cut whenever I please.'
At the beginning of his reign Domitian would spend hours alone every day doing nothing more than catching flies and stabbing them with a needle–sharp pen. Once, on being asked whether anyone was closeted with the emperor, Vibius Crispus answered wittily, ‘No, not even a fly.’
Nero tried to turn the boy Sporus into a girl by castration, he went through a wedding ceremony with him – dowry, bridal veil and all – which the whole court attended, then brought him home and treated him as a wife. A rather amusing joke is still going the rounds: the world would have been a happier place had Nero’s father Domitius married that sort of wife