Definitions

1. Sejanus was an underling whose career was tied to Tiberius.
2. Sejanus (1998), the third novel in the Marcus Corvinus series by David Wishart.
3. Sejanus was put to death by Tiberius, who feared that he was plotting against him.
4. Sejanus was put to death, along with many of his cronies, the same year.
5. Sejanus was murdered on Tiberius’s orders and Livilla was handed over to her formidable mother.

Single Camp

1. One development that favored Sejanus was the concentration of all nine cohorts of Praetorian Guardsmen into a single camp at Rome.

Lucius Aelius Sejanus

1. Sejanus (Lucius Aelius Sejanus) (sijā'n u s) [ key ], d.

October

1. Lucius Aelius Seianus (20 BC – October 18, AD 31), commonly known as Sejanus, was an ambitious soldier, friend and confidant of the Roman Emperor Tiberius.

Guard

1. Tiberius 14 - 37 Made Sejanus the sole Guard prefect (as opposed to having the usual two) allowed him to concentrate the guard in a single camp.

Marriage

1. Sejanus then (25) asked for Livilla’s hand in marriage but Tiberius forbade it.

Argument

1. Drusus is noted to have once come to blows with Sejanus in an argument.

Letter

1. On October 18, 31, Sejanus was summoned to a Senate meeting by a letter from Tiberius, ostensibly to bestow the tribunician powers upon him.

Empire

1. Tiberius, whom historians depict by this stage as tired and bitter old man, left more and more of the day-to-day running of the Empire to Sejanus.
2. By this time Tiberius had left more of the day-to-day running of the Empire to Lucius Aelius Sejanus.

Year

1. The history of Sejanus and Drusus dated back to at least 15 AD. That year a mutiny had broken out among legions posted in Pannonia and Germania.

Conspiracy

1. Amidst suspicions of conspiracy against Tiberius, Sejanus was arrested and executed, along with his followers.
2. In a conspiracy that involved his own wife Livilla, Drusus was poisoned in 23 by agents of Sejanus.

Prefect

1. With his father, Sejanus had served jointly as Prefect until 15 CE, when Sejanus became sole Prefect -- a dangerous precedent.

Hands

1. He left power in the hands of the commander of the guard, Aelius Sejanus.
2. He left power in the hands of the commander of the guard, Lucius Aelius Sejanus.

Machinations

1. His trial has been attributed to the increasing distrust of Tiberius towards his environment and the machinations of Sejanus.
2. Through the machinations of their ambitious prefect, Lucius Aelius Sejanus, the Guard was brought from the Italian barracks into Rome itself.

Throne

1. However, when in 31 Sejanus formed a conspiracy to secure the throne for himself, Tiberius was warned at the last moment and had Sejanus executed.

Consul

1. Ann. 4.7). Dio (58.4.3-4) reports also that Sejanus was consul designate for A.D. 31 and that sacrifices were offered to his image along with Tiberius's.

Claudius

1. Soon after (possibly in 28), Claudius married Aelia Paetina, a relation of Sejanus.

Antonia

1. Antonia 2 views Antonia she exposed a plot between her daughter Livilla and Sejanus, Tiberius's Praetorian Prefect.

Death

1. Also suspected of connivance in his death was Tiberius' chief advisor, Sejanus, who would, in the 20s, turn the empire into a frightful tyranny.
2. Sejanus was put to death, along with many of his associates, the same year.
3. The death of Drusus elevated Sejanus, at least in Tiberius's eyes, who thereafter refers to him as "my partner".

Plotting

1. His mother Livilla was put to death because she had been plotting with Sejanus to overthrow Tiberius, and also because she may have poisoned her husband.

Caligula

1. Before Sejanus could kill Caligula, Sejanus was brought down and killed based on information given to Tiberius by Antonia.

Roman Senate

1. Sejanus begins to dominate the Roman Senate and Tiberius, after the death of Julius Caesar Drusus.
2. Lucius Aelius Sejanus begins to dominate the Roman Senate and Tiberius, after the death of Drusus.
3. Aelius Sejanus begins to dominate the Roman Senate and Tiberius, after the death of Julius Caesar Drusus.

Emperor

1. Through years of crafty intrigues and indispensable service to the emperor, Sejanus had worked himself up to become the most powerful man in the empire.
2. Sejanus has designs on the imperial throne and begins an 8-year domination of the emperor.
3. Tiberius' mean and vengeful streak caught his erstwhile confidente, Sejanus, accused of conspiracy against the emperor.

Senate

1. Tiberius had Sejanus denounced in the Senate, then arrested and dragged off to prison to be put to death.
2. Finally realizing that Sejanus was trying to seize the imperial power he sent a carefully worded letter to the senate.

Fables

1. He incurred the wrath of Sejanus, the powerful minister of Tiberius, by some supposed allusions in his fables, and was brought to trial and punished.
2. Phaedrus was suspected of having alluded to Sejanus in his Fables, and received some unknown punishment short of death (Cf.

Absentia

1. For a time he ruled in absentia through his lieutenant, Lucius Aelius Sejanus, prefect of the Praetorian Guard.

Consulship

1. The reverse reads Augusta Bilbilis Ti(berius) Caesare L(ucius) Aelio Seiano, marking the consulship of Sejanus in that year.

Rome

1. This setback for Sejanus was offset the following year, when the ageing emperor withdrew from Rome to live on Capri; he was never to return to the city.
2. Finally, with Tiberius's withdrawal in AD 26, Sejanus was left in charge of the entire state mechanism and the city of Rome.
3. Tiberius had statues of Sejanus erected throughout the city, and Sejanus became more and more visible as Tiberius began to withdraw from Rome altogether.

Emperor Tiberius

1. Comparisons were made with Sejanus, the powerful praetorian prefect under the emperor Tiberius.

Power

1. For a time the most influential and feared citizen of Rome, Sejanus suddenly fell from power in 31, the year his career culminated with the consulship.
2. Tiberius's Praetorian Prefect, Sejanus, was extremely powerful, doing everything he could to gain power over Tiberius.
3. Two years later, realising that Sejanus was trying to seize power, Tiberius had him executed.

Capri

1. This wasn't too difficult, as Sejanus had control of Rome while Tiberius retired to the island of Capri.
2. Tiberius, getting old and weak, retires to Capri, thus leaving control of Rome in the hands of Sejanus.
3. When Tiberius withdrew to Capri in 26, Sejanus was left in control of the entire state mechanism as de facto ruler of the empire.

Praetorian Prefect

1. Events The Emperor Tiberius retires to Capri, leaving the praetorian prefect Sejanus in charge of both Rome and the Empire.
2. In his capacity of Praetorian prefect Sejanus quickly became a trusted advisor to Tiberius.
3. He finally withdrew to his villa in Capri and placed the Roman government in the hands of his praetorian prefect, Aelius Sejanus.

Livilla

1. Before the birth of the twins, Livilla may already have been in a relationship with Sejanus, Tiberius' Praetorian Prefect.
2. Sejanus convinced Livilla to poison her husband in a plot to eventually overthrow Tiberius.

Drusus

1. Unfortunately, Drusus died of asphyxiation in his early teens, shortly after becoming engaged to the daughter of Sejanus.
2. It is believed that Drusus died at the hands of the Praetorian Prefect, Sejanus.
3. For reasons of self-survival, but also because he may have had designs on the supreme power, Sejanus needed to remove Drusus.

Tiberius

1. Tiberius in Capri, Sejanus in Rome Roman aureus depicting Tiberius, with Livia as Pax shown on the reverse.
2. By 23 it looked as if Drusus, who made no secret of his antipathy towards Sejanus, would succeed Tiberius as emperor.
3. In 23, Sejanus convinced Tiberius to have the Castra Praetoria (the camp of the Praetorians) built just outside of Rome.

Sejanus

1. Sejanus also began to consolidate his own power; in 31 he was named co-consul with Tiberius and married Livilla, the emperor's niece.
2. Sejanus also began to consolidate his own power; in AD 31 he was named co-consul with Tiberius and married Livilla, the emperor's niece.
3. In 31, Sejanus held the consulship with Tiberius in absentia,[49] and began his play for power in earnest.

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