Quintus Veranius (governor of Cappadocia)

Quintus Veranius was governor of Cappadocia in AD 18.[1] He was involved in the prosecution of Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, who was accused of poisoning Germanicus, in 20.[2] After Piso's death in the same year, the emperor Tiberius conferred priesthoods on the prosecutors.

Notes
  1. Tacitus, The Annals 2.56
  2. Ronald Syme, The Augustinian Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 376.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.