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Ti·be·ri·us

(tī-bîr′ē-əs) Full name Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus. 42 bc-ad 37.

Emperor of Rome (ad 14-37). Chosen by Augustus as his successor, he generally followed Augustus's policies. He retired in his later years to Capri (26), from where he ordered the assassination of his adviser Sejanus (31).

Ti·be′ri·an (-ən) adj.

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Tiberius

(taɪˈbɪərɪəs)

(Biography) full name Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar Augustus. 42 bc–37 ad, Roman emperor (14–37 ad). He succeeded his father-in-law Augustus after a brilliant military career. He became increasingly tyrannical

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Ti•be•ri•us

(taɪˈbɪər i əs)

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(Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar) 42 B.C. – A.D. 37, Roman emperor 14–37.

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Tiberius - son-in-law of Augustus who became a suspicious tyrannical Emperor of Rome after a brilliant military career (42 BC to AD 37)

Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar Augustus

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In his estimate of Tiberius' character Jonson follows the traditional view, which scholars now believe unjust.

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Tiberius in dissimulation; as Tacitus saith of him, Jam Tiberium vires et corpus, non dissimulatio, deserebant.

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For my part, I should be sorry to think that there was nothing between Anthony and Cleopatra but an economic situation; and it will require a great deal more evidence than is ever likely to be available, thank God, to persuade me that Tiberius was as blameless a monarch as King George V.

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"The house above was said to be on the identical site of a suburban retreat of the admirable Tiberius; there was the old sinner's private theatre with the tiers cut clean to this day, the well where he used to fatten his lampreys on his slaves, and a ruined temple of those ripping old Roman bricks, shallow as dominoes and ruddier than the cherry.

I have often thought it easier to believe than lots of other things, and I have been pretty near believing in it myself since I had my being on that villa of Tiberius. The brute who had it in my day, if he isn't still running it with a whole skin, was or is as cold-blooded a blackguard as the worst of the emperors, but I have often thought he had a lot in common with Tiberius.

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It was built by Herod Antipas, the murderer of John the Baptist, and named after the Emperor Tiberius. It is believed that it stands upon the site of what must have been, ages ago, a city of considerable architectural pretensions, judging by the fine porphyry pillars that are scattered through Tiberias and down the lake shore southward.

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Judaea now and all the Promised Land, Reduced a province under Roman yoke, Obeys Tiberius, nor is always ruled With temperate sway: oft have they violated The Temple, oft the Law, with foul affronts, Abominations rather, as did once Antiochus.

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In spite of Sylla, and after the time of Julius Caesar, Tiberius raised it into the Roman Empire; the system was embodied in one man, and all authority was centered in him, a measure which prolonged the magnificent sway of the Roman for several centuries.

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