Sejanus

Family: Roman · Role: political leader · First appears: Tiberius 48

Life events

• Tiberius paid the praetorian guards for refusing to join Sejanus's party.(Tiberius 48)
  • With: Tiberius
  • “he never gave any thing, except a thousand denarii a man to the pretorian guards, for not joining the party of Sejanus”
• Tiberius gave presents to Syrian legions that had not honored Sejanus's standards effigies.(Tiberius 48 · 📍 Syria)
  • With: Tiberius
  • “and some presents to the legions in Syria, because they alone had not paid reverence to the effigies of Sejanus among their standards”
• Tiberius put two of Germanicus’s children to death, one before and one after Sejanus’s death.(Tiberius 61)
  • With: Tiberius Germanicus
  • “one of these he put to death, when he began to suspect Sejanus; and another, after he was taken off.”
• Drusus was poisoned through the contrivance of Livilla and Sejanus.(Tiberius 62)
  • With: Drusus the Younger Livilla
  • “finding that he had been poisoned by the contrivance of his wife Livilla and Sejanus”
• Sejanus plotted against Tiberius.(Tiberius 65)
  • With: Tiberius
  • “After Sejanus had plotted against him”
• Tiberius made Sejanus his colleague in the consulship to remove him from his presence.(Tiberius 65)
  • With: Tiberius
  • “he made him his colleague in his fifth consulship”
• Tiberius charged Sejanus with treason before the senate.(Tiberius 65)
  • With: Tiberius
  • “he suddenly, while Sejanus little expected it, charged him with treason”
• Tiberius accomplished Sejanus's death after foiling his conspiracy.(Tiberius 65)
  • With: Tiberius
  • “Even when he had quite foiled the conspiracy of Sejanus”

Tiberius 48

• enemies with Tiberius “To the soldiery, after doubling the legacy left them by Augustus, he never gave any thing, except a thousand denarii a man to the pretorian guards, for not joining the party of Sejanus; and some presents to the legions in Syria, because they alone had not paid reverence to the effigies of Sejanus among their standards.”

Tiberius 61

• enemies with Tiberius (Tiberius states that Sejanus plotted the destruction of Germanicus's children and that he punished him.) “I have punished Sejanus, because I found him bent upon the destruction of the children of my son Germanicus”

Tiberius 62

• enemies with Drusus the Younger “he had been poisoned by the contrivance of his wife Livilla and Sejanus”

Tiberius 65

• enemies with Tiberius “After Sejanus had plotted against him”
• employer: Tiberius (Tiberius appointed Sejanus to the consulship.) “he made him his colleague in his fifth consulship”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.