Tacitus: Histories and Annals

Crescens

Family: Nero's household · Role: Nero's freedman · First appears: Histories I.72-76

Histories I.72-76

  • employer: Nero “Crescens, one of Nero's freedmen--in evil days these creatures play a part in politics--had given the common people of the town a gala dinner in honour of the new emperor, with the result that the inhabitants hurried into various excesses.”
  • friends with Otho “Crescens, one of Nero's freedmen--in evil days these creatures play a part in politics--had given the common people of the town a gala dinner in honour of the new emperor, with the result that the inhabitants hurried into various excesses.”

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