Tiberius senate response

The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; secondary

After Gaul’s rebellion, consuls Caius Sulpicius and Decimus Haterius preside while Senate fears sumptuary correction; Tiberius defends caution in reforming luxury, declining to publicize scandal, and argues that only the prince’s attention can save the state.

subdued the fiercest nations, and enjoyed or slighted so many triumphs, he should now in his old age seek empty honours from a short progress about the suburbs of Rome." Caius Sulpitius and Decimus Haterius were the following Consuls. Their year was exempt from disturbances abroad; but at home some severe blow was apprehended against luxury, which prevailed monstrously in all things that create a profusion of money.…