He was just such a minion as would have suited the purposes of tiberius Caesar.
"A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion"
William Dobein James
The year 133 B.C., the date of the first tribunate of tiberius Gracchus, has the same kind of significance as the year 1789 A.D. Nor is it a mere coincidence that about the same time a great change takes place in the spirit of Roman literature.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
The "crystal," to which Mr. Browning refers, is the water of the well or fount, at the bottom of which, as Suetonius declared, the dice thrown by tiberius, and their numbers, were still visible.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr