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According to the site Morgana gave us the link to:What exactly Sejanus
was aiming at remains a matter of intense debate. [[20]] The Prefect's attacks against
Agrippina and his proposal to marry Drusus's widow, Livilla, suggest that he was
attempting to follow the precedent of Agrippa, that is, an outsider who became the
emperor's successor through a combination of overt loyalty, necessity, and a family
alliance forged by marriage. Tiberius, perhaps sensitive to this ambition, rejected
Sejanus's initial proposal to marry Livilla in A.D. 25, but later put it about that he had
withdrawn his objections so that, in A.D. 30., Sejanus was betrothed to Livilla. The
Prefect's family connection to the Imperial house was now imminent. In A.D. 31 Sejanus
held the consulship with the emperor as his colleague, an honor Tiberius reserved only for
heirs to the throne. Further, when Sejanus surrendered the consulship early in the year,
he was granted a share of the emperor's proconsular power. When he was summoned to a
meeting of the Senate on 18 October in that year he probably expected to receive a share
of the tribunician power; with that he would, after all, have become Tiberius's Agrippa.
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