He suppressed all foreign religions, and the Egyptian " Tiberius pulled down the
						temple of Isis, caused her image to be thrown into the Tiber , and crucified her priests."-Joseph.
						Ant. Jud. xviii. 4. and Jewish rites, obliging those who practised
					that kind of superstition, to burn their vestments, and all their sacred
					utensils. He distributed the Jewish youths, under the pretence of military
					service, among the provinces noted for an unhealthy climate; and dismissed from
					the city all the rest of that nation as well as those who were proselytes to
					that religion, Similia
							sectantes . We are strongly inclined to think that the words
						might be rendered "similar sects," conveying an allusion to the small and
						obscure body of Christians , who
						were at this period generally confounded with the Jews, and supposed only to
						differ from them in some peculiarities of their institutions, which Roman
						historians and magistrates did not trouble themselves to distinguish. How
						little even the well-informed Suetonius knew of the real facts, we shall
						find in the only direct notice of the Christians contained in his works
						(CLAUDIUS, c. xxv, NERO , c. xvi.);
						but that little confirms our conjecture. All the commentators, however, give
						the passage the turn retained in the text. Josephus informs us of the
						particular occurrence which led to the expulsion of the Jews from Rome by Tiberius.-Ant. xviii. 5. 
					under pain of slavery for life, unless they complied. He also expelled the
					astrologers; but upon their suing for pardon, and promising to renounce their
					profession, he revoked his decree. But, above all things, he was careful to keep the public peace against robbers,
					burglars, and those who were disaffected to the government. He therefore
					increased the number of military stations throughout Italy ; and formed a camp at Rome for the praetorian cohorts, which, till
					then, had been quartered in the city. He suppressed with great severity all
					tumults of the people on their first breaking out; and took every precaution to
					prevent them. Some persons having been killed in a quarrel which happened in the
					theatre, he banished the leaders of the parties, and the players about whom the
					disturbance had arisen; nor could all the entreaties of the people afterwards
					prevail upon him to recall them. Varro tells us that the
						Roman people "were more actively employed (manus movere) in the theatre and
						circus, than in the corn-fields and vineyards."-De Re Rustic. ii. And
						Juvenal, in his satires, frequently alludes to their passion for public
						spectacles, particularly in the well-known lines: Atque duas tantum res
						serrius optat, Panem et Circenses. Sat. x. 80. The people of
						 Pollentia having refused to
					permit the removal of the corpse of a centurion of the first rank from the
					forum, until they had extorted from his heirs a sum of money for a public
					exhibition of gladiators, he detached a cohort from the city, and another from
					the kingdom of Cottius; The Cottian Alps derived their
						name from this king. They include that part of the chain which divides
						Dauphiny from Piedmont , and are
						crossed by the pass of the Mont
							Cenis . who concealing the cause of their march,
					entered the town by different gates, with their arms suddenly displayed, and
					trumpets sounding; and having seized the greatest part of the people, and the
					magistrates, they were imprisoned for life. He abolished everywhere the
					privileges of all places of refuge. The Cyzicenians having committed an outrage
					upon some Romans, he deprived them of the liberty they had obtained from their
					good services in the Mithridatic war. Disturbances from foreign enemies he
					quelled by his lieutenants, without ever going against them in person; nor would
					he even employ his lieutenants, but with much reluctance, and when it was
					absolutely necessary. Princes who were ill-affected towards him, he kept in
					subjection, more by menaces and remonstrances, than by force of arms. Some whom
					he induced to come to him by fair words and promises, he never would permit to
					return home; as Maraboduus the German, Thrascypolis the Thracian, and Archelaus
					the Cappadocian, whose kingdom he even reduced into the form of a province. He never set foot outside the gates of Rome , for two years together, from the time he assumed the
					supreme power; and after that period, went no farther from the city than to some
					of the neighbouring towns; his farthest excursion being to Antium , Antium , mentioned before (AUG. c.
						Iviii.), once a flourishing city of the Volscians, standing on the
						sea-coast, about thirty-eight miles from Rome , was a favourite resort of the emperors and persons of
						wealth. The Apollo Belvidere was found among the ruins of its temples and
						other edifices. and that but very seldom, and for a few days; though
					he often gave out that he would visit the provinces and armies, and made
					preparations for it almost every year, by taking up carriages, and ordering
					provisions for his retinue in the municipia and colonies. At last he suffered
					vows to be put up for his'good journey and safe return, insomuch that he was
					called jocosely by the name of Callipides, who is famous in a Greek proverb, for
					being in a great hurry to go forward, but without ever advancing a cubit. But after the loss of his two sons, of whom Germanicus died in Syria , and Drusus at Rome , he withdrew into Campania ; A.U.C.
						779 at which time opinion and conversation were almost general, that
					he never would return, and would die soon. And both nearly turned out to be
					true. For indeed he never more came to Rome ; and a few days after leaving it, when he was at a villa
					of his called the Cave, near Terracina , Terracina , standing at the southern extremity of the
							 Pontine Marshes , on the shore
						of the Mediterranean. It is surrounded by high calcareous cliffs, in which
						there are caverns, affording, as Strabo informs us, cool retreats, attached
						to the Roman villas built round. during supper a great many huge
					stones fell from above, which killed several of the guests and attendants; but
					he almost hopelessly escaped. After he had gone round Campania , and
					dedicated the capitol at Capua , and a
					temple to Augustus at Nola , Augustus died at Nola , a city in Campania . See c. lviii. of his life. which he made
					the pretext of his journey, he retired to Capri ; being greatly delighted with the island, because it was
					accessible only by a narrow beach, being on all sides surrounded with rugged
					cliffs, of a stupendous height, and by a deep sea. But immediately, the people
					of Rome being extremely clamorous for
					his return, on account of a disaster at Fidenae, Fidenae
						stood in a bend of the Tiber , near
						its junction with the Anio. There are few traces of it remaining. 
					Where upwards of twenty thousand persons had been killed by the fall of the
					amphitheatre, during a public spectacle of gladiators, he crossed over again to
					the continent, and gave all people free access to him; so much the more,
					because, at his departure from the city, he had caused it to be proclaimed that
					no one should address him, and had declined admitting any persons to his
					presence, on the journey.