He let it fall, but tripped. As he went down, someone took their chance. Plutarch says that it was Tiberius’ fellow Tribune, Publius Satyreius, who threw the first blow and Lucius Rufus threw the second. Appian says that Tiberius fell at the feet of the statues of kings; Valerius Maximus simply says that he got what he deserved. Wood came down on his head and Tiberius died. He, along with hundreds of others, was beaten to death by a mob of the richest men in the West. He hadn’t reached his thirtieth birthday. Murder had been introduced as a solution to Roman political arguments and it could
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