Returning to Rome in 7 B.
C., he celebrated a triumph, and afterwards married Julia, the dissolute daughter of Augustus.

This marriage proved to be the ruin of Tiberius, developing everything that was bad in his character, and making him jealous, suspicious, and hypocritical.
Augustus, not relishing the changes in his character, sent him to Rhodes, where he lived seven years in retirement.

Through his mother's influence, however, he was recalled in 2 A.D., and was afterwards appointed the Emperor's successor.

He ascended the throne at the age of fifty-six.

A silent man, "all his feelings, desires, and ambitions were locked behind an impenetrable barrier." He is said but once to have taken counsel with his officers.