Tiberius
[tai'bi:riəs]
Definition
(noun.) son-in-law of Augustus who became a suspicious tyrannical Emperor of Rome after a brilliant military career (42 BC to AD 37).
Editor: Wendell--From WordNet
Examples
- And China had no need for any Licinian law, nor for a Tiberius Gracchus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was built by Herod Antipas, the murderer of John the Baptist, and named after the Emperor Tiberius. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- At first Tiberius Gracchus was a moderate reformer of a rather reactionary type. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To the motives of one or the other figures of the time, to Tiberius Gracchus, for example, we may perhaps extend the benefit of the doubt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The first conspicuous leader to appeal to the gathering revolutionary feeling in Italy was Tiberius Gracchus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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