CANYUS. Julius Canius or Canus, fl. first century A.D., was a Roman noble accused by Caligula of knowing of a plot against him. Julius was condemned to death in A.D. 40. Seneca tells of Canius's stoicism in the face of death, De tranquilitate animi XIV.9.
Boethius, similarly accused of conspiracy, wishes he could answer like Canius: "If I hadde wyst it, thow haddest noght wyst it," Bo I, Prosa 4.178-185. [Boece: Cesar3: Senec]