The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor Nero and His City by Dando-Collins Stephen

Author:Dando-Collins, Stephen [Dando-Collins, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780306819339
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: 2010-09-07T05:00:00+00:00

The honor of that first blow was claimed by the senator Flavius Scaevinus. Since the birth of the conspiracy, Scaevinus had been secretly wearing beneath his clothes a sacred dagger that he had taken from the Temple of Fortune in his Etrurian hometown of Ferentum, modern Ferento, in central Italy. Ferentum was also the hometown of Marcus Otho, the governor of Lusitania whose wife, Poppaea Sabina, Nero had stolen. No classical author could attribute a reason to Scaevinus’ participation in the plot to kill Nero, but it is possible that he was a close friend and client of Otho and that he wanted to avenge his friend’s humiliation and loss. Or, more likely, the heavily indebted Scaevinus was hopeful that Otho would handsomely reward him for the murder and relieve him of his financial problems. According to the plan now agreed on by the plotters, once Scaevinus had struck, the Praetorian officers and other conspirators would do the same.

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