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Sextus Afranius Burrus

Sextus Afranius Burrus (born AD 1 in Vasio, Gallia
Sextus Afranius Burrus
Narbonensis;[1] died AD 62) was a prefect of the Praetorian
Guard and was, together with Seneca the Younger, an advisor to Born 1
the Roman emperor Nero, making him a very powerful man in Gallia Narbonensis,
the early years of Nero's reign.[2][3] Vasio
Died 62 (age 61)
Agrippina the Younger chose him as Prefect in 51 to secure her
Rome
son Nero's place as emperor after the death of Claudius.[4] For
the first eight years of Nero's rule, Burrus and Nero's former Allegiance Roman Empire
tutor Seneca helped maintain a stable government. Burrus Years of 50 AD – 62
acquiesced to Nero's murder of Agrippina the Younger but lost service
his influence over Nero anyway. He died in 62, some say from
poison.[5] Rank Praetorian prefect
Commands Praetorian Guard
The cognomen "Burrus" is the Latin version of the name Pyrrhus, held
king of Epirus.

Sources
Tacitus Annales 12.42 (http://latin.packhum.org/loc/1351/5/0#461); 14.51 (http://latin.packhum.or
g/loc/1351/5/0#597)
Suetonius Nero 35.5 (http://latin.packhum.org/loc/1348/1/0#176)
CIL XII, 5842 (http://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi_einzel_en.php?p_belegstelle=CIL+12%2C+05842&r_so
rtierung=Belegstelle) = ILS 1321

References
1. CIL XII, 5842 (http://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi_einzel_en.php?p_belegstelle=CIL+12%2C+05842&r_so
rtierung=Belegstelle) = ILS 1321
2. Albino Garzetti (1974). From Tiberius to the Antonines: A History of the Roman Empire AD 14-
192 (https://books.google.com/books?id=UU3XAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA611). Routledge. pp. 611f.
ISBN 978-1-317-69844-9.
3. Robert K. Sherk (1988). The Roman Empire: Augustus to Hadrian (https://books.google.com/boo
ks?id=Nrcgr7gQZrcC&pg=PA99). Cambridge University Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-521-33887-5.
4. Anthony A. Barrett (1996). Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire (https://books.
google.com/books?id=AljUrTq3uZsC&pg=PA122). Yale University Press. pp. 122f. ISBN 978-0-
300-07856-5.
5. Boris Rankov (1994). The Praetorian Guard (https://web.archive.org/web/20160214062123/http
s://books.google.com/books?id=2S8Yac3z24EC&pg=PA11). Osprey Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 978-
1-85532-361-2. Archived from the original (https://books.google.com/books?id=2S8Yac3z24EC&
pg=PA11) on 14 February 2016.

Government offices
Preceded by Succeeded by
Praetorian prefect
Lusius Geta and Rufrius Faenius Rufus and Gaius
50–62
Crispinus Ophonius Tigellinus

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