Tacitus: Histories and Annals

Baebius Massa

Family: Roman · Role: imperial agent in Africa · First appears: Histories IV.47-50

Life events

  • Valerius Festus’s horsemen broke into Piso’s house and killed him, identified by Baebius Massa.(Histories IV.47-50 · 📍 Africa)
    • With: Valerius Festus Lucius Piso
    • “However, Piso himself was killed very soon after, for there was one man among them who knew him, and that was Baebius Massa”

Histories IV.47-50

  • enemies with Lucius Piso (Baebius Massa identified Piso during the attack that killed him.) “However, Piso himself was killed very soon after, for there was one man among them who knew him, and that was Baebius Massa, one of the imperial agents in Africa, who was already a danger to all the best men in Rome.”

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