Share not the views of the slander-mongers. Their business is to inculpate even those who have committed no offence. For it is out of them, especially, that they would make money. Lysias. Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the Democracy. Book 25. Section 3.
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A bronze statue of the Roman emperor Tiberius with head veiled (capite velato) preparing to perform a religious rite found in Herculaneum 37 CE photographed at the Getty Villa in Malibu, California. I believe Tiberius was the victim of slander-mongers and that the descriptions of him cavorting with children at his estate on Capri were fabricated by propagandists who were trying to justify assassinating Caligula. See my 2012 paper "Sexual innuendo and character assassination in the ancient world":
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