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Tiberius

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Ti·be·ri·us  (t-bîr-s) In full Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus. 42 b.c.-a.d. 37.
Emperor of Rome (a.d. 14-37). Chosen by Augustus to be heir to the throne, he was a suspicious, tyrannical ruler.
Ti·beri·an (-n) adj.
Tiberius [taɪˈbɪərɪəs]
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(Biographies / Tiberius (42 bc-37 ad) M, Roman, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) 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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Noun1.TiberiusTiberius - 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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Tiberius [taɪˈbɪərɪəs] N → Tiberio


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Livia Augusta, still alive at the time of the play, and there referred to as 'the great Augusta,' was mother of Tiberius and a Drusus (now dead) by a certain Tiberius Claudius Nero (not the Emperor Nero).
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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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