Decrius Calpurnianus

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Decrius Calpurnianus († autumn 48 AD) was a Roman knight of the early Imperial period .

Decrius Calpurnianus was prefect of the fire watch. According to the Roman historian Tacitus , like several other distinguished Romans , he was executed as a confidante of the adultery that the Empress Valeria Messalina had committed with the young senator Gaius Silius , in AD 48.

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  1. Tacitus, Annals 11, 35, 3.