Martina

Family: Roman provincial society · Role: alleged poisoner · First appears: Annals II (12)

Life events

Cneius Sentius sent Martina to Rome while prosecutors prepared charges against Piso and Plancina.(Annals II (12) · 📍 Rome)
- With: Cneius Sentius Publius Vitellius Veranius Cneius Piso Plancina
- “By him one Martina, infamous in that province for practices in poisoning, and a close confidant of Plancina, was sent to Rome, at the suit of Vitellius, Veranius, and others, who were preparing criminal articles against Piso and Plancina, as against persons evidently guilty.”
Martina died suddenly, with poison concealed in a knot of her hair.(Annals III (2) · 📍 Brundusium)
- “that Martina, she who was famous for poisonings, and sent, as I have above related, by Cneius Sentius towards Rome, was suddenly dead at Brundusium; that poison lay concealed in a knot of her hair”

friends with Plancina “one Martina, infamous in that province for practices in poisoning, and a close confidant of Plancina”
employer: Cneius Sentius “By him one Martina, infamous in that province for practices in poisoning, and a close confidant of Plancina, was sent to Rome, at the suit of Vitellius, Veranius, and others, who were preparing criminal articles against Piso and Plancina, as against persons evidently guilty.”

with Cneius Sentius (Cneius Sentius sent Martina towards Rome.) “Martina, she who was famous for poisonings, and sent, as I have above related, by Cneius Sentius towards Rome, was suddenly dead at Brundusium”
with Cneius Sentius (Cneius Sentius sent Martina toward Rome.) “It was bruited abroad, that Martina, she who was famous for poisonings, and sent, as I have above related, by Cneius Sentius towards Rome, was suddenly dead at Brundusium;”

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