Tiberius could not bring himself to order Livilla’s execution, because she was the daughter of Antonia. Both were dragged from the arms of their mother, Apicata, Sejanus’s former wife, and taken to the City Prison.

Suetonius says that Tiberius stood on a clifftop at Capri all through October 17 until he saw the bonfire signal that informed him that the counterrevolution had been a complete success and Sejanus was in custody.¹⁴.

Tiberius also had a villa in Capri. Antonia had continued to live at her son’s Palatine palace, where, after the arrest of Agrippina, she had raised Germanicus’s children Caligula, Agrippina the Younger, Drusilla, and Julia. Tiberius did make an attempt to strengthen the empire Within days of Tiberius’s contretemps with the Senate, and the Senate’s backdown, mother and son were arrested by the Praetorian Guard at … The Later Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene (395-800).

Macro told him he had arrived at the capital from Capri the previous evening on a mission for the emperor. He then ordered the tribune to march his men back to the Praetorian Barracks in the city’s 4th Precinct; all Praetorian troops were to be subsequently confined to barracks until they received further orders from Macro.

Tiberius was shielded and saved from the rock fall by his faithful confidant Sejanus. Stanford, 1997.

The tribune now nodded, and ordered his thousand guardsmen to fall in. Sejanus would have been expecting to be able to call on the Praetorian troops outside the temple to set him free. Byzantium in the Seventh Century. Small, flat, and treeless, it was occupied by a single clifftop villa. With this momentous act against the widow and the eldest son of Germanicus having been accomplished without the Palatium being stormed by the public, Tiberius and Sejanus now moved against the last remaining supporters of Agrippina. He didn’t have the same political skills as Augustus and gave out mixed signals. It seems that during this period Sejanus did finally marry Livilla, Germanicus’s sister and Drusus the Younger’s widow, but the details of where and when the wedding took place are lost.
Within days of Tiberius’s contretemps with the Senate, and the Senate’s backdown, mother and son were arrested by the Praetorian Guard at the palace of Germanicus on the Palatine.

Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Roman tribune (133 BCE) who sponsored agrarian reforms to restore the class of small independent farmers and who was assassinated in a riot sparked by his senatorial opponents. These charges seemed minor, and easy to bat away. “I have heard,” Dio was to write, “that of her own accord Antonia killed her daughter by starving her.”¹⁸. Throngs of people rushed to where Sejanus’s statues had been erected around the city. Byzantine Africa. 1963. Now news reached Rome that Caligula’s elder brother Nero Germanicus had died while a prisoner on the island of Ponza, starved to death. 35 All indications were that soon Tiberius would confer the tribunician power on Sejanus, making him a de facto joint-emperor and successor of Tiberius after his death. Copyright (C) 1999, R. Scott Moore. R. Scott Moore The official record of what took place here would be sent to the emperor on Capri for his perusal and then returned to Rome, to be kept in the Tabularium. While moderately successful initially, the Byzantines soon lost was eventually captured. But Sejanus had seduced Drusus’s bride, and behind his back Aemilia noted down Drusus’s every word.

As the days passed, Tiberius sent a succession of messages from Capri to say that he had been delayed. Tiberius rewarded Macro with Sejanus’s job as prefect of the Praetorian Guard. plague. A History of Byzantine State and Society. Yet the man himself seemed oblivious to either censure or the movement around him. Tiberius was not a popular emperor.

with a large army. Neither was yet a teenager. The omens were auspicious, and at the subsequent Senate session Sejanus was voted wide powers. Beaming, Sejanus thanked Macro for this great news, and hurried into the temple. The unidentified senator said that he did indeed believe that Sejanus should be imprisoned. "Tiberios II" by Paul A. Hollingsworth. Haldon, J.F. The consul read on. He came up with a gruesome solution, raping the child before strangling her.¹⁶. Treadgold, Warren. on the eastern edges of the empire. Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Regulus began to read aloud. Since she had exposed Sejanus, Antonia had become Tiberius’s most trusted ally, and she had great influence with her brother-in-law. When the soldiers told the people that their prisoner had been arrested for planning to overthrow the emperor, members of the public jeered him as he passed.

of a culture. His son was executed in the same manner. His three companions in that plot also received various punishments.

Tiberius had finally moved against Germanicus’s wife and eldest son. The tribune looked at Macro in surprise, and hesitated to obey. Now in 30 CE, Tiberius declared his intentions to make himself and Sejanus consuls the following year. 1952.

In addition, if Tiberius were to be killed in a pro-Sejanus revolt, says Suetonius, Macro had orders to release Germanicus’s son Drusus Germanicus from imprisonment in the Palatium basement and then take him to the troops and declare him the new emperor.¹³, Bonfires had been prepared on the Italian mainland opposite Capri. He appointed his brother, Heraclius, In 703, Tiberius learning of Justinian II's escape from Cherson and attempts to gain support from the Khazars, sent envoys to the Khazars to demand that they turn over Justinian to imperial officials. Byzantine Military Unrest, 471-843: an interpretation. Tiberius, in his gratitude to Sejanus for saving him from yet another supposed Germanicus family plot, now granted the Praetorian commander permission to marry Germanicus’s sister, Livilla, as he had previously requested. Lessons in the Decline of Democracy From the Ruined Roman Republic A new book argues that violent rhetoric and disregard for political norms was the beginning of Rome’s end

No one, least of all Sejanus, could work out what was going on.

This was a disaster. Latiaris, leader of the scheme that had trapped Germanicus’s friend Sabinus into saying things he shouldn’t have while colleagues had listened in the ceiling above, was condemned by the Senate and paid with his life. The city withstood the siege for several months, before the gates Sperlonga’s original name Spelunca, was derived from the Latin word speluncae, meaning natural sea caves, many of which are to be found all along these shores. Nero was sent to the nearby island of Pontia, today’s Ponza, which was just as rocky and desolate as Pandataria.

She promised that whatever it was, she would be a good girl in the future, if only she received a spanking. This introduction quickly bore fruit— apparently on the recommendation of Antonia, Seneca was promptly made a quaestor by Tiberius, to serve on the staff of one of the consuls for the new year, A.D. 32. Or Sejanus had, in Tiberius’s name. And then he was saying that the emperor required that two senators who were Sejanus’s close associates be punished severely. Ostrogorsky, George.


Minor. Another of the Piso prosecutors, Germanicus’s friend Quintus Servaeus, paid for his links with Sejanus, discreet as they had been; he was one of a number convicted in the thinning Senate for association with Sejanus. Or Sejanus had, in Tiberius’s name. But to his utter amazement, when the group emerged from the temple he found that his Praetorians had almost magically been replaced by Laco’s Night Watch troops. Others stood their ground and faced the charges in the Senate. It is known from contemporary accounts that the Emperor Tiberius was among the prosperous Romans to own villas along  the coast of South Lazio. Outside, leaving Night Watch prefect Laco in charge of the encircling of troops, Macro went down the hill and hurried across town to the Castra Praetoria, to ensure that his orders were followed to the letter and the Praetorian troops did not leave their barracks. had Tiberius and Leontius paraded through

Tiberius had not asked for Gallus’s execution. While Seneca himself was not tainted by a connection with Sejanus, one of his brothers who lived at Rome did have a link to the disgraced Praetorian prefect. Several soldiers even slapped his face for attempting to hide his identity.

With Tiberius declaring that the detention of mother and son was a matter of state security, the public, hoping that the pair would eventually be released, and probably fired by fear promoted by agents of Sejanus that any public demonstrations might lead to the executions of Agrippina and her boy, remained quiet. in the monastery of Psamathion in Constantinople. Now, instead of calling on the entire House to vote, in case Sejanus’s friends and relatives stuck by him in sufficient numbers to defeat a vote against him, the consul turned to a single senator, and asked him if he thought that Sejanus should be imprisoned, as the emperor had asked. officials. Bury,  J.B.

Tiberius had finally moved against Germanicus’s wife and eldest son.

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