Eric Wallis Flowers Everywhere painting

Eric Wallis Flowers Everywhere paintingEric Wallis Dressing in White paintingRaphael Madonna and Child with Book painting
wish to go against the Senate by vetoing their vote for fear of antagonizing Sejanus or seeming to have lost confidence in him. Whenever the Senate now wanted anything done they would first send representatives to Sejanus asking for permission to apply to Tiberius about it: and if Sejanus discouraged them the matter would be dropped. Callus one day proposed that, as the descendants of Torquatus had a golden torque and those of Cincinnatus a curled lock of hair. granted by the Senate as family badges in commemoration of their ancestors' service to the State, so Sejanus -and his descendants should be awarded as their badge a golden key, in token of his faithful services as the Emperor's doorkeeper. The Senate unanimously voted this motion' and Sejanus, growing alarmed, wrote to Tiberius and complained that Callus had maliciously proposed all the previous honours in the hope of making the Senate jealous of him, and even perhaps of making the Emperor suspect