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    ROMAN ADVENTURERS

    Apr 13, 2021 6 minutes

    One of his first acts of Nero, only months into his reign, was to eliminate his step-brother, Britannicus. Not quite fourteen years old, the boy was the natural son of the Deified Claudius; realpolitik demanded the removal of this potential threat to Nero’s hold on the throne. Poison was the method of surreptitious execution. The initial dose was procured by a praetorian tribune named Iulius Pollio and administered by the young prince’s tutors, but not before Nero had had some ‘sport’ with the boy. Britannicus had no protectors and Nero sexually abused him for several days (January or early February AD 55).

    So much for the attempts of Seneca the Younger, the famed orator and philosopher, to have a moderating influence on his former pupil and guide him along the path of good government. Nero succeeded Claudius aged just sixteen in October AD 54, and Seneca was promoted from tutor to senior imperial adviser and minister. By AD 62, Seneca’s influence at court had waned. Since Nero

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