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...Distinctly not one of the gay-blade emperors of Imperial Rome was Tiberius Claudius Nero (42 B.C.-A.D. 37). Son of one of Julius Caesar's officers and a gifted mother, he was an impenetrable man with a powerful but slow-moving mind, a love of tranquil study. As a military commander he distinguished himself in the field, particularly against Germanic tribes in Gaul. According to Suetonius, the Senate erected a triumphal arch to Tiberius...
Archeologists digging this year near the Chancellery building in Vatican City came upon five sculptured panels. By last week these were generally believed to be part of the Triumphal Arch of Tiberius. One of the carvings bore the only likeness of the studious emperor as an old man (he did not ascend the throne until...
Pope Pius XII manifested great interest in the discovery, directed the diggers to proceed with the excavation. Tiberius was the ruler Jesus referred to when He said: Render therefore unto Caesar the things hat are Caesar...
Thanks to his sagacity and his apparent incompetence, Claudius came unscathed through the ruthless realpolitik of Augustus' reign, the tyrannies of Tiberius', the craziness of Caligula's. A Roman of the old school, nostalgic for the Republic, he saw that Rome was headed in a showier direction. His stoicism kept him fairly equable through bankruptcy, an accusation of treason, a near-drowning, when he was thrown into the River Rhone by Caligula's orders. In the sabbatanic orgies at the palace Claudius played well his appointed role of buffoon, bided his time. But when a conspiracy...
which does not derive from some suggestion or hint in some classical authority, and some of the most surprising apparent inventions have historical foundation." Some of them: the haunting to death of Germanicus at Antioch; Caligula's bridging of the Bay of Baiae; Tiberius' ingenious cruelty to a fisherman he suspected of trying to poison him; the song Julius Caesar's veterans sang at his French triumph...