Macro

Family: imperial household · Role: powerful courtier · First appears: Annals VI (5)

Life events

Macro compelled Ennia to secure Caligula through a promise of marriage.(Annals VI (5))
- With: Ennia Caligula
- “he constrained Ennia his own wife to stimulate the affections of Caligula and to secure him by a promise of marriage.”
Macro was suspected of forging accusations against the accused, driven by enmity toward Arruntius.(Annals VI (6) · 📍 Rome)
- With: Lucius Arruntius
- “Hence it was suspected, that, while he was ill, and perhaps without his privacy, the accusations were in great measure forged by Macro, in consequence of his notorious enmity to Arruntius.”

married with Ennia “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.”

enemies with Lucius Arruntius “the accusations were in great measure forged by Macro, in consequence of his notorious enmity to Arruntius”
enemies with Sejanus “the same Macro, who, for destroying Sejanus, was employed as the more wicked of the two”

enemies with Tiberius “Macro continued undismayed, and ordering the apartment to be cleared, caused the feeble old man to be smothered with a weight of coverings.”

Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.