Pallas
Family: Julio-Claudian · Role: freedman and comptroller of accounts · First appears: Claudius 28
Life events
- Claudius secured Narcissus and Pallas immense presents and quaestorian and praetorian honours by senatorial decree.(Claudius 28)
- Claudius indulged Narcissus and Pallas in amassing wealth and plundering the public.(Claudius 28)
Claudius 28
- patron: Claudius “But above all others, Narcissus, his secretary, and Pallas, the comptroller of his accounts, were in high favour with him. He not only allowed them to receive, by decree of the senate, immense presents, but also to be decorated with the quaestorian and praetorian ensigns of honour. So much did he indulge them in amassing wealth, and plundering the public, that, upon his complaining, once, of the lowness of his exchequer, some one said, with great reason, that ‘It would be full enough, if those two freedmen of his would but take him into partnership with them.’”
- employer: Claudius “But above all others, Narcissus, his secretary, and Pallas, the comptroller of his accounts, were in high favour with him.”
Vitellius 2
- admirer: Lucius Vitellius “He likewise worshipped golden images of Narcissus and Pallas among his household gods.”
- with Lucius Vitellius (Lucius worshipped a golden image of Pallas.) “He likewise worshipped golden images of Narcissus and Pallas among his household gods.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.