Upon his last birth-day, he had brought a full-sized statue of the Timenian
					Apollo from Syracuse , a work of
					exquisite art, intending to place it in the library of the new temple; In the temple of the Palatine Apollo. See AUGUSTUS, c. xxix.
					 but he dreamt that the god appeared to him in the night, and assured him
					"that his statue could not be erected by him." A few days before he died, the
					Pharos at Capri was thrown down by an
					earthquake. And at Misenum , some embers
					and live coals, which were brought in to warm his apartment, went out, and after
					being quite cold, burst out into a flame again towards evening, and continued
					burning very brightly for several hours. The people were so much elated at his death, that when they first heard the news,
					they ran up and down the city, some, crying out "Away with Tiberius to the
						 Tiber ;" others exclaiming, "May the
					earth, the common mother of mankind, and the infernal gods, allow him no abode
					in death, but amongst the wicked." Others threatened his body with the hook and
					the Gemonian stairs, their indignation at his former cruelty being increased by
					a recent atrocity. It had been provided by an act of the senate, that the
					execution of condemned criminals should always be deferred until the tenth day
					after the sentence. Now this fell on the very day when the news of Tiberius's
					death arrived, and in consequence of which the unhappy men implored a reprieve,
					for mercy's sake; but. as Caius had not yet arrived, and there was no one else
					to whom application could be made on their behalf, their guards, apprehensive of
					violating the law, strangled them, and threw them down the Gemonian stairs. This
					roused the people to a still greater abhorrence of the tyrant's memory, since
					his cruelty continued in use even after he was dead. As soon as his corpse was
					begun to be moved from Misenum ,
					many cried out for its being carried to Atella , Atella , a town between Capua and Naples ,
						now called San Arpino, where there was an amphitheatre. The people seem to
						have raised the shout in derision, referring, perhaps, to the Atellan
						fables, mentioned in c. xiv.; and in their fury they proposed that his body
						should only be grilled, as those of malefactors were, instead of being
						reduced to ashes. and being half burnt there in the amphitheatre. It
					was, however, brought to Rome , and
					burnt with the usual ceremony.