Tiberius Quotes

Question 1

Suetonius 47

Answer 1

He was seldom present […] lest anything be requested of him

An offer to lend gratis, for three years, a hundred million sesterces

Question 2

Tacitus 1.72

Answer 2

Tiberius rejected the title Father of the Country […] yet even so he failed to inspire the belief his sentiments were not monarchical

Question 3

VP 2.129-30

Answer 3

How often he did honour the people with largesses

The African war […] was soon extinguished

Question 4

Tacitus 3.65

Answer 4

[Tiberius upon leaving the Curia] these men! - how ready they are for slavery!

Question 5

Suetonius 40

Answer 5

He went to Capraea […] because it was accessible by only one small beach

Question 6

Suetonius 26

Answer 6

Of many high honours he accepted only a few of the more modest

He forbade the voting of temples, flamens and priests in his honour

Question 7

Suetonius 61

Answer 7

Not a day passed without an execution, not even those that were sacred and holy

Question 8

Dio 1.1

Answer 8

Tiberius […] never let what he desired appear in his conversation, and what he said he wanted he usually did not desire at all

Question 9

Tacitus 1.35

Answer 9

Should he [Germanicus] desire the throne, they [the soldiers] made it manifest that they were ready

Question 10

Tacitus 58.5.1

Answer 10

It was he [Sejanus] who appeared to be emperor and Tiberius a kind of offshore monarch