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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 13

Note 144 — TRANSLATIONS FROM JUVENAL. (continued 3)

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The island of Caprea, which lies about a league out at sea from the Campanian shore, was the scene of Tiberius's pleasures in the latter part of his reign. There he lived, for some years, with diviners, soothsayers, and worse company; and from thence dispatched all his orders to the senate.

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