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TiberiusClaudiusNero Caesar (November 16, 42 BC - March 16, AD 37), Roman emperor AD Second emperor of what is usually identified as the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
Tiberius was by birth a Claudian -- son of TiberiusClaudiusNero and Livia -- and was the adopted heir of Augustus, who was a Julian.
In the Bible, Tiberius is mentioned by name only once, in Luke 3:1 (stating that John the Baptist entered on his public ministry in the fifteenth year of his reign).
His father Drusus ClaudiusNero served under Pompey in 67 BC, battling the pirate menace, and was famous for recommending that the members of the Catiline Conspiracy be confined.
He was the father of the Roman Emperor Tiberius and the general NeroClaudius Drusus; grandfather to Germanicus, Drusus Julius Caesar, Livilla and the Roman Emperor Claudius; great-grandfather to Emperor Caligula; and great- great-grandfather to Nero.
TiberiusNero was forced to choose sides, and in his distrust of Octavian, he cast his lot with Mark Antony.
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