Abuses and Scandal:
Tiberius started out well, but greed and paranoia stepped in. A reign of terror started as informers accused Roman men and women of many, even silly crimes that led to capital punishment and confiscation of the criminal's estate. In Capri, Tiberius stopped fulfilling his civic obligations, but instead engaged in licentious acts. Most familiar is his training of little boys to act as nipping minnows. Tiberius' mean and vengeful streak caught his erstwhile confidant, Sejanus, accused of conspiracy against the emperor. Until Sejanus was destroyed, people had blamed him for the excesses of the emperor.
Tiberius and Caligula:
During Tiberius' exile in Capri, Gaius (Caligula) came to live with the old man, his adopted grandfather. Tiberius included Caligula as joint heir in his will. The other heir was Tiberius' brother Drusus' child. According to Tacitus, when it looked as though Tiberius was on his last legs, Caligula tried to take sole control, but then Tiberius recovered. The head of the Praetorian Guard, Macro, stepped in and had the old emperor smothered.
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