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Tiberius
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in full Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus
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pronunciation:
[tiybeerius]
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| 42 BC
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| 37 AD |
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| Roman emperor (14–37), the son of Livia, and stepson and successor of the Emperor Augustus. Deeply conservative by nature, he was content to continue Augustus's policies and simply consolidate his achievements. Despite the soundness of his administration and foreign policy, politically his reign was a disaster. The suspicious death of his heir Germanicus (19) was followed by the excesses of his chief henchman, the praetorian prefect Sejanus, and the reign of terror that followed Sejanus's downfall (d.31) made him an object of universal loathing. Few mourned when he died on Capri, the island retreat that had been his home since 26. |
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