Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus, simply called Tiberius, was the Roman emperor during Jesus’ teenage years, and for several more years after His crucifixion (14-37 A.D.). He was not the biological son of the previous emperor Augustus (Octavian). He was the son of Augustus’ wife Livia, by her first husband, Tiberius Claudius Nero. Livia divorced Nero and married Octavian. Pliny the Elder called Tiberius “the gloomiest of men” and despite military victories as a young general, he seemed reluctant to rule.
He eventually did become Caesar (Augustus had no choice when both of his true sons died) and what we know of his 23-year rule comes primarily from a man named Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. According to his historical work, The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Tiberius was a dark, reclusive man, but liked to have sex with anyone, male or female, old or young, even abusing newborn babies. He swam naked with children who were trained to nibble at him like minnows, and after tiring of them, would have them thrown over a cliff.
According to Josephus, he “made death the penalty for the slightest offenses” and people would be killed for even speaking ill of him. One story from Suetonius relays a particularly cruel torture preventing urination:
“…he would trick men into loading themselves with copious droughts of wine, and then on a sudden tying up their private parts, would torment them at the same time by the torture of the cords and of the stoppage of their water.” Tiberius was a dark, reclusive man, but liked to have sex with anyone, male or female, old or young, even abusing newborn babies.
In was at Capri that the term “old goat” was coined because of his sexual deviance.
On retiring to Capri he devised a pleasure palace for his secret orgies: teams of wantons of both sexes, selected as experts in deviant intercourse and dubbed analists, copulated before him in triple unions to excite his flagging passions. Its bedrooms were furnished with the most salacious paintings and sculptures, as well as with an erotic library, in case a performer should need an illustration of what was required. Then in Capri’s woods and groves he arranged a number of nooks of lust where boys and girls got up as Pans and nymphs solicited outside bowers and grottoes: people openly called this “the old goat’s garden,” punning on the island’s name.
“But”, you might say, “that was in ancient Rome and not in our 21st. Century world.
Consider Jeffrey Epstein and the elite visitors to St James Island and Zorro ranch.
Sexual perversions & the people who prey on their victims. (children) need to be locked up. Throw away the key. It is: sick illegal-dangerous for the young ones.
I pray for the children & the devastated families.
I cannot find enough heart to pray for the perpetrators of the misery they are guilty of.
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