Other treason trials Flashcards
Why was one woman charged
-Appuleia Varilla was charged under the treason law for speaking insultingly about the divine Augustus, Tiberius, the Augusta, committing adultery (ruled to be a matter for the Julian adultery Law)
Tiberius’ response to Apuleia Varilla’s insults against the emperor’s family
- Tiberius insisted on a distinction between insults against Augustus (she should be condemned) and himself (no inquiry to be held). On the next senates meeting said slanders against his mother should not on any circumstance be made the subject of a charge
– Released Appuleia under the treason law.
Tiberius’ response to Apuleia Varilla’s adultery
- For adultery had her relatives remove her two hundred miles from Rome, her lover banned from Italy and Africa.
- the substitute of a dead praetor was disputed.
- Drusus and Germanicus supported one candidate when the law declared that the number of the candidates’ children should be the decisive factor.
Tiberius’ opinion on the argument over the substitute of the dead praetor’s successor
- Tiberius enjoyed seeing the senate decided between his sons and the law.
- naturally The law lost
“that is how laws had been overruled even when they still meant something”
How had people been escaping punishments
by grasping an effigy of the emperor. Even slaves had intimidated their patrons. and respectable people slandered
What matter did a senator (Gaius Cestius Gallus) raise about people escaping punishments
his agency convicted Annia Rufilla for fraud, she menaced and abused him in the forum and outside the senate.
HE could not risk legal proceedings as she clutched an image of the emperor
Drusus was required for the escaping punishments scandal
Drusus was begged to inflict exemplary punishment, summoned Annia, had her convicted and goaled in the state prison.
Improved Drusus’ reputation
a false treason trial brought to justice
Two Knights that made fictitious accusations of treason against a praetor were punished at the emperor’s instigation by a senatorial decree.
- also improved Drusus’ reputation
Governor of Crete and Cyrene
impeached by an accuser for extortion, to which was added the charge of treason, now the complement of every prosecution.
Tiberius shows to use treason
A prominent man from Macedonia was acquitted of adultery, Tiberius rebuked the judges and haled the defendant back to be tried for treason as an accomplice of the anti-Roman intentions of Rhesuporis.
– he was outlawed and banished to an island
