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Annals by Tacitus
Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb
Book XIII Chapter 22: Appointments[AD 55]
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The superintendence of the corn supply was given to Faenius Rufus, the direction of the games which the emperor [Note 1] as preparing, to Arruntius Stella, and the province of Egypt to Gaius Balbillus. Syria was to be assigned to Publius Anteius, but he was soon put off by various artifices and finally detained at Rome. Silana was banished; Calvisius and Iturius exiled for a time; Atimetus was capitally punished, while Paris was too serviceable to the emperor's profligacy to allow of his suffering any penalty. Plautus for the present was silently passed over.

Note 1: emperor = Nero