Menas

Family: Roman · Role: freedman · First appears: Augustus 74

Life events

• Augustus rewarded Menas with citizenship for betraying Pompey’s fleet.(Augustus 74)
  • With: Augustus Pompey
  • “Valerius Messala informs us, that he never admitted any freedman to his table, except Menas, when rewarded with the privilege of citizenship, for betraying Pompey’s fleet.”

Augustus 74

• patron: Augustus (Menas was rewarded with citizenship and admitted to Augustus’s table.) “Valerius Messala informs us, that he never admitted any freedman to his table, except Menas, when rewarded with the privilege of citizenship, for betraying Pompey’s fleet.”
• enemies with Pompey (Menas betrayed Pompey’s fleet.) “Valerius Messala informs us, that he never admitted any freedman to his table, except Menas, when rewarded with the privilege of citizenship, for betraying Pompey’s fleet.”

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