Sejanus
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
in the texts
Consolation to Marcia
Roman prefect under Tiberius whose persecution led to the death of Cremutius Cordus.
he gave Sejanus, standing at his side, proof of how patiently he could lose his own.
but after it became plain to you that, amid the satellites of Sejanus, this one escape from slavery lay open to him, you did not approve his plan, yet you yielded, beaten;
well of the man himself, whose memory lives and will live as long as it shall be worth anything to know the history of Rome, as long as there shall be anyone who would return to the deeds of our forefathers, as long as anyone who would know what a Roman man is, what a man unbowed when the necks of all are now subdued and forced beneath the yoke of Sejanus, what a man is who is free in mind, in spirit, and in hand.
Letters to Lucilius
Praetorian prefect under Tiberius, mentioned as a politically dangerous figure.
For whenever the friendship of Asinius Gallus, whenever the hatred of Sejanus and then his love, had sunk anyone — for it was as dangerous to have offended him as to have loved him — men would cry out:
On Tranquillity of Mind
Roman official who fell from the height of honor to being torn apart by the people on the same day the senate had escorted him.
But surely not such great ones, or so unlooked for, or so all-embracing as Sejanus held?