Thursday 16 October 2008

Vincent van Gogh Stairway at Auvers painting

Vincent van Gogh Stairway at Auvers paintingVincent van Gogh Souvenir de Mauve paintingVincent van Gogh Orchard in Blossom painting
the enemy generals who had invited him to a parley. It was not a serious wound. He thought little of it at the time and concluded the campaign successfully. But somehow he was given the wrong medical treatment, and his health, which from no apparent cause had been failing him for the last two years, became seriously affected: he lost all power of mental concentration. Finally he wrote to Augustus for permission to retire into private life. Augustus was grieved, but granted his plea. Gaius died on his way Home. Thus of Julia's sons only fifteen year old Postumus now remained and Augustus was so far reconciled to Tiberius that, as Thrasyllus foretold, he engrafted him into the Julian house by adopting him, jointly with Postumus, as his son and heir.
The East was quiet now for a time, but when the war that had broken out in Germany again-I mentioned it in connection with my schoolboy composition for Athenodorus-took a serious turn, Augustus made Tiberius army commander and showed his renewed confidence in him by awarding him a ten years' Protectorship. The campaign was a severe one and Tiberius

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