Tiberius the Younger was, as it happens, a remarkably boring Roman. He’s even the most boring member of his family. His mum got statues dedicated to her for being, essentially, the best Roman mother ever. The dad was the subject of a famous story: one day he found two snakes in his house, a male and a female (apparently he was an expert at sexing snakes because I’ve just Googled it and it’s hard. It involves the words ‘probe’ and ‘cloacal vent’.). He did the first thing that any good Roman chap did when confronted by an unusual situation and found a fortune teller to explain it. The fortune
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