Nymphidius Sabinus

Family: imperial household · Role: praefect · First appears: Histories I.5-8

Life events

Nymphidius Sabinus’s plot to become emperor was detected, quashed, and removed.(Histories I.5-8)
- “His design was as a matter of fact detected and quashed, but, though the ringleader was removed”

enemies with Galba (Nymphidius plotted to seize the imperial position held by Galba.) “They soon realized that the donation promised in Galba's name was not to be paid to them, and that peace would not, like war, offer opportunity for great services and rich rewards. Since they also saw that the new emperor's favour had been forestalled by the army which proclaimed him, they were ripe for revolution and were further instigated by their rascally Praefect Nymphidius Sabinus, who was plotting to be emperor himself.”
with Cingonius Varro (Cingonius Varro is identified as Nymphidius's accomplice.) “He executed Cingonius Varro, the consul-elect, and Petronius Turpilianus, an ex-consul, the former as an accomplice of Nymphidius, the latter as one of Nero's generals.”

Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.