Sosibius

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Sosibius († 51 ) was a Roman scholar and politician of the 1st century AD.

Nothing is known about Sosibius' origins and youth; possibly he was an imperial freedman . Emperor Claudius entrusted him with the education of his son Britannicus . In 47 Sosibius warned the emperor - probably on behalf of his wife Messalina - of the power and wealth of the two-time consular Valerius Asiaticus . Asiaticus was then arrested, interrogated and eventually forced to commit suicide. At the suggestion of Lucius Vitellius , who held the consulate with Claudius for the third time that year, the Senate sent Sosibius a million sesterces a little later , probably as a reward for his testimony against Asiaticus. Four years later, at the instigation of Agrippina , the successor to the disgraced Messalina, Sosibius , like other confidants of Britannicus, was executed on the pretext of a conspiracy.

literature

  • Werner Eck : Sosibios [4]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , column 743.
  • Steven H. Rutledge: Imperial Inquisitions. Prosecutors and informants from Tiberius to Domitian . Routledge, London 2001, ISBN 0-415-23700-9 , pp. 106-107, 269-271, 286 .

Remarks

  1. ^ A b Cassius Dio , Roman History 60,32,5 .
  2. ↑ a b Tacitus , Annalen 11,1,2 .
  3. ↑ Tacitus, Annals 11,4,6 .
personal data
SURNAME Sosibius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Educator of Britannicus
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC BC or 1st century
DATE OF DEATH 51