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SEJANUS, LUCIUS AELIUS

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SEJANUS, See also:LUCIUS AELIUS , favourite and See also:minister of the See also:Emperor Tiberius. He was the son of Seius See also:Strabo, See also:prefect of the See also:praetorians, and was adopted into the See also:Aelian gens. After his See also:father's departure from See also:Rome to take up the governorship of See also:Egypt; Sejanus was made prefect in his See also:stead. He gained the confidence of Tiberius, and, supported by the praetorians, whom he concentrated in a See also:camp on the Viminal See also:Hill, became virtually ruler of Rome. But he aimed still higher, and determined to put all the members of the royal See also:house out of his way. Having removed See also:Drusus (the son of Tiberius) by See also:poison, he persuaded the emperor to retire to the See also:island of Capreae. The See also:death of Drusus was followed some years later by those of See also:Agrippina (the wife of Germanicus) and her sons Drusus and See also:Nero. Tiberius at last saw through his designs, and caused Sejanus to be put to death (A.D. 31). See also:Tacitus, See also:Annals, iv. I, 2, 3, 8, 39-,59, 74, v. 6-9; Suetonius, Tiberius, 62; Dio See also:Cassius lvii. viii.

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Juvenal x. 65-86; J. Julg, Vita Aelii Sejani (1882), with notes giving full references to authorities; J. C. Tarver, Tiberius the See also:Tyrant (See also:London, 1902), See also:chap. xvii.

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