> Tiberius was, well, a bit odd, but things were mostly stable enoug If you were a rich aristocrat it’s likely that you lived under a constant threat of being

> Tiberius was, well, a bit odd, but things were mostly stable enoug If you were a rich aristocrat it’s likely that you lived under a constant threat of being killed during one of his “stalinist” style purges. Which to be fair wasn’t that odd even the “good” emperors like Claudius engaged in stuff like that. Rule of law wasn’t much of a thing during the imperial period.