[Date and place of birth unknown. Died at Cenchreæ, in Greece, A.D.
67.]
One of the most celebrated generals of his age, and brother-in-law of
Caligula. He composed some military memoirs after the manner of Cæsar’s
Commentaries, but they have not been preserved. He was a good
disciplinarian, and cautious as well as brave. He commanded against the
Parthians, and was victorious in every engagement. After Nero’s
accession, he continued faithful to his new master, who summoned him to
Greece, and for his fidelity greeted him with an order for execution on
his landing at Cenchreæ. He stabbed himself with his own sword. His
daughter Domitia Longina, celebrated for her beauty and vices, was the
wife of the Emperor Domitian.
[From the marble in the Gallery of Philosophers, of the Capitoline
Museum, at Rome.]