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

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  • The name Tiberius, I hope, will keep, howe'er he hath foregone The dignity and power.
  • He was too mad to be aware of the pain, and he continued to chant: "Tiberius is emperor; there is no king!"
  • My sense of Tiberius is that he was a bad emperor for the Roman elites in the capital, to whom he was a capricious, paranoid tyrant.
  • Too much had been hoped for in recalling Tiberius to power.
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