. maintained his fidelity to the new first year of Ins reign was marked by thedeath of Julia, whom Augustus had removedfrom Pandataria to Rhegium. The death ofGermanicus in the East, in 19, relieved Ti-berius from all fear of a rival claimant to thethrone; and it was believed by many that Ger-manicus had been poisoned by order of this time Tiberius began to indulge withless restraint in his love of tyranny, and manydistinguished senators were soon put to deathon the charge of treason against the emperor
. maintained his fidelity to the new first year of Ins reign was marked by thedeath of Julia, whom Augustus had removedfrom Pandataria to Rhegium. The death ofGermanicus in the East, in 19, relieved Ti-berius from all fear of a rival claimant to thethrone; and it was believed by many that Ger-manicus had been poisoned by order of this time Tiberius began to indulge withless restraint in his love of tyranny, and manydistinguished senators were soon put to deathon the charge of treason against the emperor(laesa majestas). Notwithstanding his sus-picious nature, Tiberius gave his complete confi-dence to Sejanus, who for many years possessedthe real government of the state. This am-bitious man aimed at the imperial power. In28 Drusus, the son of Tiberius, was poisoned bythe contrivance of Sejanus. Three years after-wards (26) Tiberius left Rome, and withdrewinto Campania. He never returned to the left on the pretext of dedicating temples in TIBILIS 953. Head of Tiberias. fFrom a6tatue in the Vatican.) Campania, but the real cause was probably hisdislike to Rome, where he knew that he wasunpopular ; and Sejanus was only too anxiousto encourage any feeling which would keep theemperor at a distance from the city. ThatTiberius went because he wished to hide hislicentiousness in this place of retirement maybe set down as a silly invention. Rome wasnot a place were licentiousness was took up his residence (27) in the island ofCapreae, at a short distance from the Campa-nian coast. The death of Livia (29), the em-perors mother, released Tiberius from onecause of anxiety. He had long been tired ofher, because she wished to exercise authority,and one object in leaving Rome was to be outof her way. Livias death gave Sejanus andTiberius free scope, for Tiberius never entirelyi released himself from a kind of subjection tohis mother, and Sejanus did not venture toattempt t
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