Herennius Senecio

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Herennius Senecio was a Roman jurist who lived in the 1st century.

Herennius Senecio came from Hispania Baetica , a Roman province in what is now southern Spain, where he held the bursary . The bursary, the lowest office of the senatorial office career , was the highest he achieved.

Around the year 91 he defended the praetor Lucius Valerius Licinianus , who had been involved and accused in a case of unchastity ( Crimen incesti ) against the Vestal Virgin Cornelia . Herennius Senecio brought the judge, Emperor Domitian , his confession in the absence of his client .

Around the year 93, he and the younger Pliny represented the indictment in a repeat trial against the governor Baebius Massa , who had illegally enriched himself in the province of Baetica.

Herennius Senecio fell from grace after writing a dignified biography of the stoic Gaius Helvidius Priscus , who was executed in 75 on the orders of Emperor Vespasian . Herennius Senecio suffered the same fate towards the end of the year 93 through Domitian , who, as the son of Vespasian, presumably saw himself personally attacked because of the writing. He was charged and killed.

literature

  • Richard Goulet: Senecio (Herennius). In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Volume 6, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2016, ISBN 978-2-271-08989-2 , pp. 202–203

Remarks

  1. ↑ Pliny the Younger , Epistulae 7,33,5.
  2. ↑ Cassius Dio 67,13,2.
  3. ↑ Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 4,11,12.
  4. ↑ Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 7,33,4.
  5. ↑ Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 7,19,5; Tacitus , Agricola 2.1.
  6. ↑ Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 3, 11, 3 and 7, 19, 5 f .; Tacitus, Agricola 45.1.
personal data
SURNAME Senecio, Herennius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman jurist
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century
PLACE OF BIRTH Hispania Baetica
DATE OF DEATH 93