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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: Tiberius primary

C. Suetonius Tranquillus (trans. Alexander Thomson, rev. T. Forester) · c. 121 CE
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Tiberius shows harshness to Drusus, his mother Livia, and his wife, refusing her status, feuding openly, and treating her illness and funeral with neglect, legal annulment, and punitive aftermath.

Gemonian Steps, and suffered a decree of the senate to pass, thanking him for his clemency, and an offering of gold to be made to Jupiter Capitolinus on the occasion. LIV. He had by Germanicus three grandsons, Nero, Drusus, and Caius; and by his son Drusus one, named Tiberius. Of these, after the loss of his sons, he commended Nero and Drusus, the two eldest sons of Germanicus, to the senate; and at their being so…