which could see in the dark; of his broad shoulders, his martial bearing,
and the fine proportion of his limbs: he describes, too, the unusual
strength of his hands and fingers, especially of the left hand. His health
was good; because, from his thirtieth year, he was his own physician.
"Valetudine prosperrima usus est, tempore quidem principatus paene toto
prope illesa; quamvis a trigesimo aetatis anno arbitratu eam suo rexerit,
sine adjutamento consiliove medicorum." The Emperor Julian describes him
"severe and grim; with a statesman's care, and a soldier's frankness,
curiously mingled:" this was in his old age.

_Down the pale cheek, long lines of shadow slope;
Which years, and curious thought, and suffering give._

At Rome, is a sculpture of Tiberius; he is represented young, seated,
crowned with rays, exceedingly handsome and majestic: if the figure were
not known to be a Caesar, the beholder would say it was a God.

There is another personage in "The Annals," whose history there is
mutilated, and perhaps dissembled; of whose character my readers may like
to know something more, than Tacitus has told them: I mean Sejanus, a man
always to be remembered; because whatever judgment we may form about his
political career, and on this question the authorities are divided, yet it
is admitted by them all, that he introduced those reforms among the
Praetorian Cohorts, which made them for a long time, proprietors of the
throne, and the disposers of the Imperial office. To this minister,
Paterculus attributes as many virtues as he has bestowed upon Tiberius: "a
man grave and courteous," he says, "with 'a fine old-fashioned grace';
leisurely in his ways, retiring, modest; appearing to be careless, and
therefore gaining all his ends; outwardly polite and quiet, but an eager
soul, wary, inscrutable, and vigilant." Whatever he may have been in