See Tacit.Hist.iv.43.

Dialog.
de Orator.c.8.For one accusation, Regulus, the just object of Pliny's satire, received from the senate the consular ornaments, and a present of sixty thousand pounds.] [Footnote 56: The crime of majesty was formerly a treasonable offence against the Roman people.

As tribunes of the people, Augustus and Tiberius applied tit to their own persons, and extended it to an infinite latitude.

Note: It was Tiberius, not Augustus, who first took in this sense the words crimen laesae majestatis.

Bachii Trajanus, 27.
-- W.] [Footnote 57: After the virtuous and unfortunate widow of Germanicus had been put to death, Tiberius received the thanks of the senate for his clemency.