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Notes Display Latin text | Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb Book XVI Chapter 12: Months change of names[AD 65] | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
Publius Gallus, a Roman knight, was outlawed for having been intimate with Faenius Rufus and somewhat acquainted with Vetus. To the freedman who was the accuser, was given, as a reward for his service, a seat in the theatre among the tribune's officers The month too following April, or Neroneus, was changed from Maius into Claudius, and Junius into that of Germanicus, Cornelius Orfitus, the proposer of the motion, publicly declaring that the month Junius had been passed over because the execution of the two Torquati for their crimes had now rendered its name inauspicious. |