Locusta

Role: poisoner · First appears: Nero 33

Life events

• Nero employed Locusta to prepare poison for Britannicus.(Nero 33)
  • With: Nero Britannicus
  • “He employed for this purpose a woman named Locusta”
• Nero ordered Locusta’s poison given to Britannicus during supper.(Nero 33)
  • With: Nero Britannicus
  • “he commanded the potion to be brought into the eating-room and given to Britannicus, while he was at supper with him.”
• Nero pardoned Locusta, rewarded her with land, and arranged apprentices for her.(Nero 33)
  • With: Nero
  • “He gave Locusta a pardon, and rewarded her with a great estate in land, placing some disciples with her, to be instructed in her trade.”
• Nero received a dose of poison from Locusta and stored it in a golden box.(Nero 47)
  • With: Nero
  • “Then taking from Locusta a dose of poison, which he put up in a golden box,”

Nero 33

• employer: Nero (Nero employed Locusta to prepare poison.) “He employed for this purpose a woman named Locusta, who had been a witness against some persons guilty of like practices.”
• enemies with Britannicus (Locusta administered poison intended to kill Britannicus.) “He employed for this purpose a woman named Locusta, who had been a witness against some persons guilty of like practices. But the poison she gave him, working more slowly than he expected, and only causing a purge,”

Nero 47

• with Nero (Locusta provided Nero with poison.) “Then taking from Locusta a dose of poison, which he put up in a golden box”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.