Tacitus: Histories and Annals

Quintus Haterius

Family: Roman aristocracy · Role: senator · First appears: Annals I (5)

Life events

  • Quintus Haterius's question provoked Tiberius into immediate rage.(Annals I (5))
    • With: Tiberius
    • “With Haterius he fell into instant rage;”
  • Haterius narrowly escaped execution and obtained protection only after Augusta's persistent entreaties.(Annals I (5))
    • With: Tiberius Augusta
    • “It is known how Haterius, when he went next day to the palace to implore pardon, and throwing himself at the feet of Tiberius embraced his knees, narrowly escaped being slain by the soldiers; because Tiberius, who was walking, tumbled down, whether by chance, or whether his legs were entangled in the arms of Haterius: neither was he a jot mollified by the danger which threatened so great a man, who was at length forced to supplicate Augusta for protection; nor could even she obtain it, but after the most laboured entreaties.”

Annals I (5)

  • enemies with Tiberius “With Haterius he fell into instant rage”
  • patron: Augusta “Haterius, when he went next day to the palace to implore pardon, and throwing himself at the feet of Tiberius embraced his knees, narrowly escaped being slain by the soldiers; because Tiberius, who was walking, tumbled down, whether by chance, or whether his legs were entangled in the arms of Haterius: neither was he a jot mollified by the danger which threatened so great a man, who was at length forced to supplicate Augusta for protection; nor could even she obtain it, but after the most laboured entreaties.”

Also listed in Roman Aristocracy — Minor Figures

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