Calvia Crispinilla

Family: Roman political society · Role: political instigator · First appears: Histories I.72-76

Life events

• Calvia Crispinilla escaped punishment, while Otho suffered discredit for conniving at her survival.(Histories I.72-76)
  • With: Otho
  • “But she was saved by various prevarications, and Otho's connivence cost him some discredit.”

Histories I.72-76

• pupil: Nero “This woman had tutored Nero in vice, and afterwards crossed to Africa to incite Clodius Macer to civil war.”
• enemies with Clodius Macer “This woman had tutored Nero in vice, and afterwards crossed to Africa to incite Clodius Macer to civil war.”
• patron: Otho “About the same time there arose a demand for the punishment of Calvia Crispinilla. But she was saved by various prevarications, and Otho's connivence cost him some discredit.”

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