Tiberius

Let's see what we've got today.

He says, today in 14 AD, is this going to be something about Augustus? Today in 14 AD, Tiberius asked, well it must have been just after Augustus died, his successor, Tiberius, his stepson.

Tiberius asked the Senate to confirm him as Augustus's successor.

Right, yeah.

That's personally, this is just a pure personal historical opinion.

Some people make that argument.

Myself, personally, some people say when Caesar, Julius Caesar, his dictatorship, that was the end of the Republic at that point.

I put it at the point in time when Augustus handed over all his powers, Augustus, Octavian, had collected nearly all, well, all the important powers of the state into one person, into his own person, powers of the tribune, the powers of the most important, all of it together into one man, himself.

Nor did they expect that their strength should decrease in them, or that malice should grow in them, as they did in corrupt times.

Ottavius first, and then Tiberius, thinking more of their own power than the public usefulness, in order to rule over the Roman people more easily, began to disarm them, and to keep the same armies continually at the frontiers of the empire.

And because they did not think it sufficient to hold the Roman people and the Senate in check, they instituted an army called the Praetorian Guard, which they kept near the walls of Rome in a fort adjacent to that city.

And as they now began freely to permit men assigned to the army to practice military matters as their profession, there soon resulted that these men became insolent, and they became formidable to the Senate and damaging to the Emperor.

Alexander of Epirus used these means fighting against the Illyrici, and Leptines the Syracusan against the Carthaginians, and the design succeeded happily for both.

Many have overcome the enemy by giving him the faculty of eating and drinking beyond his means, feigning being afraid and leaving his quarters full of wine and herds, and when the enemy had filled himself beyond every natural limit, they assaulted him and overcame him with injury to him.

Thus Tamirus did against Cyrus, and Tiberius Gracchus against the Spaniards.

Some have poisoned the wine and other things to eat in order to be able to overcome them more easily.

Look at Luke 3 verse 1 now, okay? Here's what God's word says.

In the 15th year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip, tetrarch of the region of Iteria, and Trachonitis and Lysianus, tetrarch of Abilene.

You still awake? Okay, good.

During the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas.

She was passing to church.

It was Tiberius.

Hey?

Tiberius said it.

Tiberius.

Oh, did he? [laughs] Thanks.

Well, if Tiberius said it, there must be something in it.

And he only just missed being in the Bible anyway.

Away it went, and hurried my Uncle Toby's ideas along with it.

"'For this reason,' continued my father, "'tis worthy to recollect how little alteration in great men the approaches of death have made.' Vespasian died in a jest upon his close stool, Galba with a sentence, Septimus Severus in a dispatch, Tiberius in dissimulation, and Caesar Augustus in a compliment.

I hope t'was a sincere one, quoth my uncle Toby.

T'was to his wife, said my father.

We've lost our brain, boys.

You've got to account for time and inflation, but fucking Tiberius, again, he had way more wealth than Elon Musk.

Yep.

Mansu Munsa, the guy owned every, the guy owned every mine on the continent of Africa.

So sure, the Roman Senate made the decree, but nothing happened.

But after Augustus, his successor Tiberius in 19 CE actually exiled those who followed Egyptian practices, cultic worship, and more.

And this is not I want to iterate to you guys.

This is not the first time that we see outside practices being exiled in the empire or even in the late Roman Republic.

To avoid the attack of the spoiler, the sow stirs not abroad.

why make a long story they perished through hunger with their young ones and afforded the cat and her kittens an ample repast silly credulity may take this as a proof how much evil a double-tongued man may often contrive fable v caesar to the chamberlain there is a certain set of busybodies at rome hurriedly running to and fro busily engaged in idleness out of breath about nothing at all with much ado doing nothing trouble to themselves and most annoying to others it is my object by a true story to reform this race if indeed i can it is worth your while to attend Tiberius Caesar, when on his way to Naples, came to his country seat at Misenum, which, placed by the hand of Lucullus on the summit of the heights, beholds the Sicilian sea in the distance, and that of Etruria close at hand.

one of the highly-girt chamberlains, whose tunic of Pelusian linen was nicely smoothed from his shoulders downwards, with hanging fringes, while his master was walking through the pleasant shrubberies, began, with bustling officiousness, to sprinkle the parched ground with a wooden watering-pot, but only got left at.

Thence, by shortcuts to him well known, he runs before into another walk, laying the dust.