Tiberius Caesar
historical figure · 6 works · 9 mentions · 12 anchored passages
Tiberius · Caesar · the emperor
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Stromata
Roman emperor whose regnal years are used to date the beginning of Jesus' ministry and, variously, his baptism and passion.
"And in the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar the word of the Lord came upon John the son of Zacharias.
Gaius Julius Caesar three years, four months, six days, after whom Augustus reigned forty-six years, four months, one day;
And, dealing exactly with his passion, some bring it, in the sixteenth year of Tiberius Caesar, on the twenty-fifth of Phamenoth, others on the twenty-fifth of Pharmuthi;
Letters to Lucilius
Roman emperor during whose early reign foreign religious rites were expelled from Rome
The time of my youth had fallen in the early principate of Tiberius Caesar.
A mullet of huge size, why should I not add the weight too and tempt the gullet of some, they said it was four pounds and a half, Tiberius Caesar, when it was sent to him and he had ordered it to be carried into the market and sold, said:
On Benefits
Roman emperor whose manner of granting a debt-relief request is used as an example of a benefit ruined by insult and calculated humiliation.
2 Tiberius Caesar, being asked by Marius Nepos, a man of praetorian rank, to relieve his debt, ordered him to furnish the names of his creditors;
2 Tiberius Caesar, when someone at the beginning was saying to him "Do you remember—" before he could bring forth more tokens of an old intimacy, said:
On Providence
The Roman emperor Tiberius, under whose reign the gladiator Triumphus is placed.
I once heard the gladiator Triumphus, under Tiberius Caesar, complaining of the scarcity of shows:
Adversus Judaeos
Roman emperor under whom Christ's passion is dated, in the fifteenth year of his reign.
In the fifteenth year of his reign Christ suffered, being about thirty years old when he suffered.
Adversus Marcionem
Roman emperor under whose reign Christ is said to have appeared, used by Tertullian to measure the gap before Marcion.
In the fifteenth year of Tiberius, Christ Jesus deigned to flow down from heaven, a saving spirit.
But as it is, what sort of thing is it that the Lord was revealed in the twelfth year of Tiberius Caesar, while the substance, even up to the fifteenth year now of the emperor Severus, has not at all been discovered — which, surpassing the trifles of the Creator, would surely have ceased to lie hid, now that its lord and author lies hid no longer?