Tacitus: Histories and Annals

Calpurnius Asprenas

Family: Roman · Role: governor · First appears: Histories II.5-9

Life events

  • Galba entrusted Calpurnius Asprenas with governing Galatia and Pamphylia.(Histories II.5-9 · 📍 Galatia and Pamphylia)
    • With: Galba
    • “Galba had entrusted the government of Galatia and Pamphylia to Calpurnius Asprenas, who had been granted an escort of two triremes from the fleet at Misenum.”
  • Calpurnius Asprenas ordered his captains to board and kill the impostor.(Histories II.5-9 · 📍 Cythnus)
    • “However, they faithfully made a full report to Asprenas, on whose instructions they boarded the ship and killed the impostor, whoever he was.”

Histories II.5-9

  • employer: Galba “Galba had entrusted the government of Galatia and Pamphylia to Calpurnius Asprenas, who had been granted an escort of two triremes from the fleet at Misenum.”

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