Gaius Sallustius Crispus Passienus

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Gaius Sallustius Crispus Passienus was a prominent Roman senator in the first half of the 1st century AD. He came from Visellium and was the son of Lucius Passienus Rufus ( consul 4 BC) and the adopted grandson and biological great-grand-nephew of the historian Sallust .

He had power, wealth and influence. In the year 27 he held the office of a suffect consul , was 42/43 proconsul of the province of Asia and in the year 44 consul for the second time, this time as consul ordinarius together with Titus Statilius Taurus .

His first marriage was in 33 with Domitia , a great niece of the Emperor Augustus . At the urging of the Emperor Claudius , he divorced Domitia at the end of February / beginning of March of the year 41 in order to marry Agrippina the younger . She had just lost her first husband, Domitia's brother Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus , due to an illness (from this connection Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, who later became Emperor Nero, emerged) and had recently returned from exile, to which her brother and incumbent Emperor Caligula she had had banished.

Passienus was a friend of Seneca and a well-known writer and speaker. An epigram written by him and handed down through Tacitus says that there was never a better slave and a worse master than Emperor Tiberius .

Passienus died around the year 47 or 48, but possibly earlier after 44. He may have been poisoned by his wife Agrippina, who later became empress and mother of Nero. Suetonius writes in his brief biography of De Vita Passieni Crispi : "He came around with a malice of Agrippina, which he had used as heiress, and was buried in a state funeral."

literature

  • Michèle Ducos: Passienus (C. Sallustius Crispus) . In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques , Vol. 5, Part 1, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-271-07335-8 , pp. 177-179

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Periit per fraudem Agrippinae, quam heredem reliquerat, et funere publico elatus est .
personal data
SURNAME Sallustius Crispus Passienus, Gaius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crispus Passienus, Gaius Sallustius; Passienus, Gaius Sallustius Crispus; Passienus crispus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION roman senator
DATE OF BIRTH before 27
PLACE OF BIRTH Visellium
DATE OF DEATH after 44