
059- To the Tiber with Tiberius
The History of Rome
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Tiberius had never been particularly happy with his role as Emperor. After the fall of Saginus though, Tiberius simply stopped looking for a partner to bear his burdens for him. The apparatus Augustus had set up turned out to be self-perpetuating enough to survive six years of utter neglect by his successor. He was famously obsessed with two things: purging Rome and indulging in his own increasingly inappropriate fetishes.
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