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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
P. Anteius
was to have had the province of Syria in A. D. 56, but was detained in the city by Nero.
He was hated by Nero on account of his intimacy with Agrippina, and was thus compelled to put an end to his own life in A. D. 57. (Tac. Ann. 13.22, 16.14.)
Atime'tus
a freedman and paramour of Domitia, the aunt of Nero, accused Agrippina of plotting against her son Nero, A. D. 56. Agrippina, however, on this occasion, obtained from Nero the punishment of her accusers, and Atimetus accordingly was put to death. (Tac. Ann. 13.19, 21, 22.)
Caeci'na
8. CAECINA TUSCUS, the son of Nero's nurse, had been appointed in A. D. 56, according to Fabius Rusticus, praefect of the Praetorian troops in the place of Afranius Burrus, but did not enter upon the office, as Burrus was retained in the command through the influence of Seneca. Caecina was subsequently appointed governor of Egypt by Nero, but was afterwards banished for making use of the baths which had been erected in anticipation of the emperor's arrival in Egypt.
He probably returned from banishment on the death of Nero, A. D. 68, as we find him in Rome in the following year. (Tac. Ann. 13.20; Suet. Nero 35; D. C. 63.18; Tac. Hist. 3.38.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Ca'pito, Cossutia'nus
a Roman advocate in the reigns of Claudius and Nero, who appears to have used his profession as a mere means for enriching himself. For this reason he and some of his profession opposed a law by which advocates were to be forbidden to accept anyfees from their clients. In A. D. 56 he obtained Cilicia as his province, and there he acted with the same avarice and impudence as he had done before at Rome.
In the year following, the Cilicians accused him of extortion, and he was condemned, in consequence of which he lost his senatorial rank.
But this he afterwards received back, through the mediation of Tigellinus, his father-in-law; and shortly after, A. D. 62, he accused the praetor Antistius Sosianus of high treason. In A. D. 66, Annaeus Mela, the brother of the philosopher Seneca, and father of the poet Annaeus Lucan, left a large legacy to Tigellinus and Cossutianus Capito, the latter of whom came forward in the same year as the accuser of Thrasea Paetus, for Thr
Ce'stius
4. Cestius Proculus, accused of repetundae, but acquitted, A. D. 56. (Tac. Ann. 13.30.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Densus, Julius
a man of equestrian rank of Nero. In A. D. 56, he was accused of being too favourably disposed towards Britannicus, but his accusers were not listened to. (Tac. Ann. 13.10.) [L.S]
Itu'rius
a client of Junia Silana [SILANA], whom, with a fellow-client [CALVISIUS, p. 586], she employed to accuse the empress Agrippina of majestas, A. D. 56, and who, on the failure of their charge, was banished with his patroness. After Agrippina's murder, Iturius was recalled from exile by Nero. (Tac. Ann. 13.19, 21, 22, 14.12.) [W.B.D]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Latera'nus, Plau'tius
was one of the lovers of Messallina, the wife of the emperor Claudius, and was in consequence condemned to death by the emperor in A. D. 48; but pardoned, says Tacitus, on account of the brilliant services of his uncle, by whom the historian probably means A. Plautius, the conqueror of Britain. Lateranus was deprived of his rank as a senator, to which, however, he was restored on the accession of Nero, in A. D. 56. Ten years afterwards (A. D. 66), although consul elect, he took part in the celebrated conspiracy of Piso against Nero, actuated, says the historian, by no private wrongs, but by love for the state.
He met death with the greatest firmness, refusing to disclose the names of any of the conspirators, and not even upbraiding the tribune, who executed him in the place where slaves were put to death, with being privy to the conspiracy, though such was the case.
The first blow not severing his head from his body, he calmly stretched it out again. (Tac. Ann. 1
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Ma'ncia, Curti'lius
was legatus of the army on the upper Rhine, in the reign of Nero, and assisted Dubius Avitus, praefect of Gaul and lower Germany, in putting down the league of the Tenctheri, Bructeri, and Ampsivarii, against the Romans, A. D. 56-59. (Tac. Ann. 13.56; Phlegon, de Admir. 27.) [W.B.D]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)