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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Burrus (search)
with a slight wound, he consulted Burrus and Seneca, hoping that they would assist him in carrying his plan into effect; but Burrus refused to take any part in it, and declared that the praetorians were bound to afford their protection to the whole house of the Caesars. In the same manner Burrus opposed Nero's design of murdering his wife Octavia. At length, however, Nero, who had already threatened to deprive Burrus of his post, resolved to get rid of his stern and virtuous officer, and accordingly had him killed by poison, A. D. 63. Tacitus, indeed, states, that it was uncertain whether he died of illness or in consequence of poison, but the authority of other writers leaves no doubt that he was poisoned by the emperor. The death of Burrus was lamented by all who had felt the beneficial influence he had exercised, and the power which Seneca had hitherto possessed lost in Burrus its last supporter. (Tac. Ann. 12.42, 69, 13.2, 20, &c., 14.7, 51, 52; D. C. 52.13; Suet. Nero 35.) [L.S]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ci'ncius (search)
Ci'ncius 3. CINCIUS, who was entrusted with the government of Syria in A. D. 63, during the expedition of Corbulo. (Tac. Ann. 15.25.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Ge'minus, Duce'nnius was appointed by Nero, in A. D. 63, one of the three consulars who had to superintend the public vectigalia and to prosecute those who had before managed them badly. In the reign of Galba he was praefect of the city. (Tac. Ann. 15.18, Hist. 1.14.) [L.S]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Me'mmius (search)
Me'mmius 12. C. Memmius Regulus, son, probably, of the preceding, was consul in A. D. 63. (Fasti; Tac. Ann.15.23; Gruter, Inscr. p. 8.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Monoba'zus (search)
Monoba'zus （*Mono/bazos), was king or tetrarch of Adiabene in A. D. 63, when Tigranes, king of Armenia, invaded his kingdom. Monobazus applied for aid to Vologeses, the Parthian monarch; and the troops of Adiabene and Parthia entered Armenia, and invested its capital, Tigranocerta. Monobazus afterwards accompanied Vologeses to the camp of Corbulo [CORBULO] at Randeia, to negotiate a truce between Parthia and Rome. The sons of Monobazus were in the suite of Tiridates on his visit to Nero in A. D. 66. (Tac. Ann. 15.1, 14; D. C. 62.20, 23, 63.1.) [W.B.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Otho, Sa'lvius 3. L. Salvius Otho Titianus, was the son of No. 2, and the elder brother of the emperor Otho. He was consul A. D. 52, with Faustus Cornelius Sulla (Tac. Ann. 12.52; Frontin. Aquaed. 13). In A. D. 63 Titianus was proconsul in Asia, and had Agricola for his quaestor. It is related to the honour of the latter that he was not corrupted by the example of his superior officer, who indulged in every kind of rapacity (Tac. Agric. 6). On the death of Galba in January A. D. 69, Titianus was a second time made consul, with his brother Otho, the emperor. When the latter set out from Rome against the generals of Vitellius, he left Titianus in charge of the city, but he soon afterwards sent for him and gave him the chief command in the war. It was partly through his eagerness to engage with the Vitellian troops, that his brother lost the empire; and on the downfall of the latter Titianus was so little dreaded, that he was pardoned by Vitellius--pietate et ignauia excusatus, says T
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Paetus, C. Caese'nnius sometimes called CAESO'NIUS, was consul A.D. 61 with C. Petronius Turpilianus. He was sent by Nero in A. D. 63 to the assistance of Domitius Corbulo [CORBULO], in order to defend Armenia against the attacks of Vologeses, king of Parthia. Arrogant by nature, and confident of success, he thought himself superior to the veteran Corbulo, and crossed the Taurus, boldly asserting that he would recover Tigranocerta, which Corbulo had been obliged to leave to its fate. This, however, he was unable to accomplish; but he took a few fortified places, acquired some booty, and then, as the year was far advanced, led back his army into winter-quarters, and sent to Nero a magnificent account of his exploits. But as Vologeses shortly after appeared with a large force, Paetus marched forth against him (according to Dio Cassius, with the view of relieving Tigranocerta), but after losing a few troops he hastily withdrew across mount Taurus, leaving 3000 soldiers to defend the pass
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pallas (search)
ty, deprived her favourite Pallas of all his public offices, and dismissed him from the palace as early as the year 56. In the same year Pallas was accused, together with Burrus, by one Paetus, of a conspiracy to raise Cornelius Sulla to the throne, but being defended by Seneca, according to Dio Cassius (61.10), he was acquitted. From this time he was suffered to live unmolested for some years, till at length his immense wealth excited the rapacity of Nero, who had him removed by poison, in A. D. 63. His enormous wealth, which was acquired during the reign of Claudius, had become proverbial, as we see from the line in Juvenal (1.107), ego possideo plus Pallante et Licinio ; and when the poverty of the imperial treasury was complained of on one occasion in the reign of Claudius, it was said that the emperor would possess an abundance, if he were taken into partnership by his two freedmen, Narcissus and Pallas. (Suet. Cl. 28; comp. Plin. Nat. 33.10. s. 47.) The arrogance and pride of Pal
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Po'llio, A'nnius was accused of treason (majestas) towards the end of the reign of Tiberius, but was not brought to trial. He was subsequently one of Nero's intimate friends, but was notwithstanding accused of taking part in Piso's conspiracy against that emperor in A. D. 63, and was in consequence banished. His wife's name was Servilia. (Tac. Ann. 6.9, 15.56, 71, 16.30.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Rufus, Vergi'nius was consul for the first time in A. D. 63, with C. Memmius Regulus, and received afterwards the government of Germany. He commanded in this country in the last year of Nero's reign (A. D. 68), when Julius Vindex, the propraetor of Gaul, revolted from Nero, and offered the sovereignty to Galba, who was then in Spain. The soldiers of Rufus wished their own commander to assume the supreme power, but he steadily refused it himself, and would not allow any one else to obtain it, except the person upon whom it might be conferred by the senate. He accordingly marched against Vindex, who was defeated by him in a bloody battle, and put an end to his life. When the news of this disaster reached Galba, he was so alarmed that he was also on the point of destroying himself. The soldiers of Rufus were now more anxious than ever to raise him to the imperial dignity, and as he would not yield to their entreaties they proceeded to use threats, which he equally disregarded. Soon after
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