Varro Muraena

Role: conspirator · First appears: Augustus 19

Life events

• Augustus quashed conspiracies against his life involving nine named plotters.(Augustus 19)
  • With: Augustus Lepidus Fannius Caepio Marcus Egnatius Plautius Rufus Lucius Paulus Lucius Audasius Asinius Epicadus Telephus
  • “He afterwards quashed several tumults and insurrections, as well as several conspiracies against his life, which were discovered, by the confession of accomplices, before they were ripe for execution; and others subsequently. Such were those of the younger Lepidus, of Varro Muraena, and Fannius Caepio; then that of Marcus Egnatius, afterwards that of Plautius Rufus, and of Lucius Paulus, his grand-daughter’s husband; and besides these, another of Lucius Audasius, an old feeble man, who was under prosecution for forgery; as also of Asinius Epicadus, a Parthinian mongrel, and at last that of Telephus, a lady’s prompter; for he was in danger of his life from the plots and conspiracies of some of the lowest of the people against him.”
• Fannius Caepio and Varro Muraena conspired against Augustus.(Tiberius 8)
  • With: Fannius Caepio Augustus
  • “He prosecuted Fannius Caepio, who had been engaged in a conspiracy with Varro Muraena against Augustus, and procured sentence of condemnation against him.”

Augustus 19

• enemies with Augustus “He afterwards quashed several tumults and insurrections, as well as several conspiracies against his life, which were discovered, by the confession of accomplices, before they were ripe for execution; and others subsequently. Such were those of the younger Lepidus, of Varro Muraena, and Fannius Caepio; then that of Marcus Egnatius, afterwards that of Plautius Rufus, and of Lucius Paulus, his grand-daughter’s husband; and besides these, another of Lucius Audasius, an old feeble man, who was under prosecution for forgery; as also of Asinius Epicadus, a Parthinian mongrel, and at last that of Telephus, a lady’s prompter;”

Tiberius 8

• enemies with Augustus “He prosecuted Fannius Caepio, who had been engaged in a conspiracy with Varro Muraena against Augustus, and procured sentence of condemnation against him.”

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