Imperial Household — Minor Figures
7 figures from Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Antonia
mother of Germanicus · first appears Annals III (1)
- Annals III (1) · child: Germanicus “That Antonia, mother to the deceased, bore any part in the funeral, I do not find either in the historians or in the city journals;”
Nymphidius Sabinus
praefect · first appears Histories I.5-8
- Histories I.5-8 · enemies with 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.”
- Histories I.5-8 · with Cingonius Varro “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.”
Apicata
wife of Sejanus · first appears Annals IV (1)
- Annals IV (1) · married with Aelius Sejanus “Sejanus too, to avoid the jealousy of the adulteress, discharged from his bed Apicata his wife, her by whom he had three children.”
- Annals IV (3) · married with Sejanus “in truth, the plan and process of the murder were first discovered by Apicata, wife of Sejanus, and laid open upon the rack by Eudemus and Lygdus.”
Ennia
wife of Macro · first appears Annals VI (5)
- Annals VI (5) · married with Macro “After the death of Claudia, whom I have mentioned to have been espoused to the young Prince, he constrained Ennia his own wife to stimulate the affections of Caligula and to secure him by a promise of marriage.”
- Annals VI (5) · engaged with Caligula “After the death of Claudia, whom I have mentioned to have been espoused to the young Prince, he constrained Ennia his own wife to stimulate the affections of Caligula and to secure him by a promise of marriage.”
Actius
centurion · first appears Annals VI (4)
- Annals VI (4) · with Drusus (son of Germanicus) “were it not for the letters of Actius the Centurion, and Didymus the Freedman; who in them declare, particularly, the names of the slaves set purposely to abuse and provoke Drusus, with the several parts they acted;”
Didymus
freedman · first appears Annals VI (4)
- Annals VI (4) · with Drusus (son of Germanicus) “were it not for the letters of Actius the Centurion, and Didymus the Freedman; who in them declare, particularly, the names of the slaves set purposely to abuse and provoke Drusus, with the several parts they acted;”
Agrippa Posthumus
imperial family member · first appears Annals III (6)
- Annals III (6) · enemies with Sallustius Crispus “and privy and consenting to the order for slaying Agrippa Posthumus.”
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Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.