Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . y .iljanuss high-handed proceedings pemlieven the stupefaction of Tiberius. Hisjealousy flamed up, and he to 1his haughty subordinate to a By this time, however, Sejanus hadeluded that his master could now be spfrom further inte
Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . y .iljanuss high-handed proceedings pemlieven the stupefaction of Tiberius. Hisjealousy flamed up, and he to 1his haughty subordinate to a By this time, however, Sejanus hadeluded that his master could now be spfrom further interference in the affiur-Rome. He accordingly a plan to:assassination; but Tiberius oiitwittiil hi,-tnerous subordinate, ami in A. D. .!1 ;was seized and executed. For the moment, there was joy in liover the .lestruction .if the tyrant. It the cni-arcd UMVEBSAL HISTORY. —THE WORLD. even hoped that Tllicrius, aiUT hi excess and hlood^lpolicy and mannernature was incapaMon, his life becamemore desjiicahle. ]tices were reliiVrdlight, and that wasHis dissipations inhealth. He tuttere. rd, wonld return to the; nf Au-u-tiis. But his? (it As a.:.e diewiinrt- L:liniv. his characterlis di^positiin and prac-IV I inly a single gleam ofthr prnspect of his death.(apre;e had ruined his1 brieHv about the basilica. under the \Yeight of a disreputable old age, andthen died in his seventy-eighth year, A. D. only benefits which flowed from the ad-ministration of Tiberius were traceable to theearlier years of his reign. His first acts weremarked with wiMloin and firmness. For aseasiui, till ni-dcr and pniLircss nf the state weremaintained with a > hand. A milder system of p-vm Ut wa- enforced in the provinces; nnr did the Km| at the first ex-hibit that .?niclty nf ,li-|,..-itiMn which after-ward convert, d him into a piT-ocutor atyrant. It narnitod tliat in many of thestate trials of the earlv Years of his reign, he interposed on behalf
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