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SORANAS. Barea Soranus was proconsul in Asia sometime before A.D. 63. He angered Nero by his fairness and energy and refused to punish Pergamum for employing force to prevent the Caesarian infantry from looting Asian statues and paintings. In A.D. 66 Publius Egnatius Celer, one of his former clients, accused him of plotting in Asia. Tacitus says that Egnatius Celer affected the pose of a Stoic, and so his accusations were convincing. Soranus and his daughter Servilla were condemned to death (Annals XVI.xxi-xxxii).

Lady Philosophy reminds Boethius of famous men like Soranas who have been betrayed by friends, Bo I, Prosa 3.53-59.


Tacitus, Annals, ed. and trans. J. Jackson, IV: 366-385.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

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