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| | Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1122 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Tiberius made several public orations, such as that on his father, delivered when he was nine years old, but this we must assume to have been written by somebody else ; the funeral oration of Augustus ; that on Maroboduus, delivered before the senate A. d. |
 | | Justrnus, feeling himself incompetent for the labour of administration, associated Tiberius with him, and it is said that the influence of his wife Sophia, who admired the handsome captain, contributed to determine the emperor's choice. |
 | | The speech which the emperor addressed to Tiberius on this occasion is preserved by Theo-phylactus Simocatta, and has been translated by Gibbon: it contained wise advice, and Tiberius followed it. |
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