Icelus

Also known as: Martianus · Family: Roman imperial · Role: freedman · First appears: Nero 49

Life events

Icelus granted Nero’s request that his body be burned whole.(Nero 49)
- With: Nero
- “He had requested of his attendants, as the most essential favour, that they would let no one have his head, but that by all means his body might be burnt entire. And this, Icelus, Galba’s freedman, granted.”
Icelus received the privilege of wearing the gold ring and using the cognomen Martianus.(Galba 14)
- With: Galba
- “his freedman Icelus, dignified a little before with the privilege of wearing the gold ring, and the use of the cognomen Martianus”

patron: Galba (Icelus is identified as Galba's freedman.) “And this, Icelus, Galba’s freedman, granted.”

patron: Galba “and his freedman Icelus, dignified a little before with the privilege of wearing the gold ring, and the use of the cognomen Martianus”
with Galba (interaction) “He was governed by three favourites, who, because they lived in the palace, and were constantly about him, obtained the name of his pedagogues. These were Titus Vinius, who had been his lieutenant in Spain, a man of insatiable avarice; Cornelius Laco, who, from an assessor to the prince, was advanced to be prefect of the pretorian guards, a person of intolerable arrogance, as well as indolence; and his freedman Icelus, dignified a little before with the privilege of wearing the gold ring, and the use of the cognomen Martianus, who became a candidate for the highest honour within the reach of any person of the equestrian order.”

with Galba (Icelus was Galba's old catamite.) “when Icelus, an old catamite of his, brought him the news of Nero’s death”

Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.