August
15
/ 2022
When word of his younger brother’s life-threatening illness reached him, Roman General Tiberius (later Emperor Tiberius Caesar Augustus) who was in Pavia at the time, crossed the Alps like a man possessed. Without stopping day or night, he covered 200 Roman miles in a dangerous country. When Tiberius finally arrived, his younger brother Nero Claudius Drusus, despite being on the verge of death, ordered his men to greet Tiberius with the dignity due to a consular and an imperator. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"98465","attributes":{"alt":"Drusus at the River Elbe by Eduard Bendemann (1860) Berlin, Sammlung Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte (AKG Collection)","class":"media-image","style":"width: 610px; height: 448px;","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]] Drusus at the River Elbe by Eduard Bendemann (1860) Berlin, Sammlung Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte ( AKG Collection )
