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Definition of Tiberius

1. Noun. Son-in-law of Augustus who became a suspicious tyrannical Emperor of Rome after a brilliant military career (42 BC to AD 37).

Definition of Tiberius

1. Proper noun. ( male given name) of mostly historical use, in particular, the praenomen of the second Roman emperor Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, reigning 14-37 (C.E.). ¹

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Literary usage of Tiberius

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"Respect for Augustus had kept ambitions silent, but Tiberius found himself ... be stated, once for all, that the view of Tiberius here presented has not ..."

2. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"Among the virtues of Tiberius,28 his beauty (he was one of the tallest and most comely of the Romans) might introduce him to the ..."

3. The Cambridge Medieval History by John Bagnell Bury, Zachary Nugent Brooke (1913)
"Tiberius, his position now established, at once busied himself with the work ... Tiberius had indeed with practical insight comprehended Rome's true policy. ..."

4. The Greatness and Decline of Rome by Guglielmo Ferrero (1909)
"CHAPTER X JULIA AND Tiberius Farther reform of the Senate—The origin of the consilium prt*- cipis—The two generations in antagonism—Amusements at ..."

5. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1837)
"The voice of an angel (such a fable was propagated i might reveal to the emperor, that he should always triumph over his domestic foes; but Tiberius derived ..."

6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1901)
"of the church ; Tiberius received the diadem on his knees, and Justin, who in his abdication appeared most worthy to reign, addressed the new monarch in the ..."

7. A General History of Rome from the Foundation of the City to the Fall of by Charles Merivale (1886)
"Tiberius brings forward his son Drusus.—Sejanus rises in Ms favor, ... Induces Tiberius to withdraw to Capreae, and intrigues against Agrippina. ..."

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