Noun:

धनुस्तंभ,

sejanus's Usage Examples:

LUCIUS AELIUS SEJANUS, favourite and minister of the Emperor Tiberius.

Two of her sons, Nero and Drusus, had already fallen victims to the machinations of Sejanus.

Tiberius and his favourite Sejanus feared that her ambition might lead her to attempt to secure the throne for her children, and she was banished to the island of Pandataria off the coast of Campania, where she died on the 18th of October 33, starved to death by herself, or, according to some, by order of Tiberius.

Here was the imperial villa in which Sejanus saved the life of Tiberius, who was almost crushed by a fall of rock.

His friendship with Sejanus and his brother made him politically suspect, and he only escaped death by remaining practically a prisoner in his own brother's house until the accession of Caligula.

He ruled ten years, quarrelled almost continuously with the Jews - whom Sejanus, diverging from the Caesar tradition, is said to have disliked - and in A.D.

26 from the household of Tiberius, through the influence of Sejanus, to be procurator over part of the imperial province of Syria, viz.

His real offence was a witticism at the expense of Sejanus, who put up two of his creatures to accuse him in the senate.

Sejanus, the favourite of Tiberius, and Musonius Rufus the Stoic were natives of the place.

But the death of Sejanus in 31 set Tiberius free from prejudice against the Jews.