Illustrations of history

The story, related by the infamous rumormonger Suetonius, may not be true. However, the Emperor Tiberius had, at the time, become isolated and paranoid, so it's also not impossible.

A fisherman appeared unexpectedly and offered him a huge mullet; whereupon in his alarm that the man had clambered up to him from the back of the island over rough and pathless rocks, he had the poor fellow's face scrubbed with the fish. And because in the midst of his torture the man thanked his stars that he had not given the Emperor an enormous crab that he had caught, Tiberius had his face torn with the Crab also.

Finally, a proper illustration of what happens in the background in my friends' houses when I talk with them online.

This was definitely commissioned by Tiberius.

What an asshole.

Guy in the back is the most smug looking human being this side of the Belvedere of Tragara

Today women pay big bucks to get their face scrubbed with a fish.

Tiberius slaps Fisherman around a bit with a large trout.

Why were emperors like that?