Tiberius [Tībē'rĭŭs]—son of tiber. The stepson of Augustus and third Emperor of Rome, A.D. 14-37 (Luke 3:1). His full name was Tiberius Caesar Augustus. A Souter reminds us that Tiberius was “an able general and a competent Emperor, but the unhappy experiences of his early life made him suspicious and timorous, and he put many of his rivals or supposed rivals to death. In his later years he was much under the influence of a villainous schemer, Sejamus.”