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Although winter was usually brief on the Island of Capri, there was plenty of it while it lasted--according to Tiberius Cesar, who detested it. The murky sky depressed his spirit. The raw dampness made his creaking joints ache. The most forlorn spot, he declared, in the Roman Empire.
The old man's favourite recreation, since committing most of his administrative responsibilities to Prince Gaius, was residential architecture. He was forever building huge, ornate villas on the lofty skyline of Capri, for what purpose not even the gods knew.