Quintus Veranius (governor of Cappadocia)

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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.