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Notes Display Latin text | Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb Book XVI Chapter 8: Complot against Cassius and Silanus (cont.)[AD 65] | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
Nero next denounced Silanus himself in the same terms as he had his uncle Torquatus, implying that he was already arranging the details of imperial business, and setting freedmen to manage his accounts, papers, and correspondence, imputations utterly groundless and false. Silanus, in truth, was intensely apprehensive, and had been frightened into caution by his uncle's destruction. Nero then procured persons, under the name of informers, to invent against Lepida , the wife of Cassius and aunt of Silanus, a charge of incest with her brother's son and of some ghastly religious ceremonial. Volcatius Tullinus, and Marcellus Cornelius, senators, and Fabatus, a Roman knight, were drawn in as accomplices. By an appeal to the emperor these men eluded an impending doom and subsequently, as being too insignificant, escaped from Nero, who was busy with crimes on a far greater scale. |