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[ Tacitus agrees with Suetonius as to the age of Tiberius at the time of his death. Dio states it more precisely, as being seventy-seven years, four months, and nine days.]
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[ Caius Caligula, who became his successor.]
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[ Tacitus and Dio add that he was smothered under a heap of heavy clothes.]
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[ In the temple of the Palatine Apollo. See AUGUSTUS, c. xxix.]
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[ Atella, a town between Capua and Naples, now called San Arpino, where there was an amphitheatre. The people seemed to have raised the shout in derision, referring, perhaps, to the Atellan fables, mentioned in c. xiv.; and in their fury they proposed that his body should only be grilled, as those of malefactors were, instead of being reduced to ashes.]