Tacitus: Histories and Annals

Coenus

Family: Neronian · Role: freedman of Nero · First appears: Histories II.54-58

Life events

  • Vitellius executed Coenus for spreading a false report about the Fourteenth legion.(Histories II.54-58)
    • With: Vitellius
    • “but was executed by order of Vitellius a few days later.”

Histories II.54-58

  • employer: Nero “one of Nero's freedmen, called Coenus”
  • enemies with Vitellius “He did, indeed, thus insure for himself a quick journey to Rome, but was executed by order of Vitellius a few days later.”

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