Servius Asinius Celer
Servius Asinius Celer (died AD 46) was a
senator active during the Principate. He was suffect consul in the second half of the year 38 with Sextus Nonius Quinctilianus as his colleague.[1]
Celer was the son of
Valeria Messalina; Marcus Asinius Agrippa, consul in 25; Asinius Saloninus; and Asinius Gallus.[2] In addition, Celer was half brother of Drusus Julius Caesar
, son of his mother with Tiberius and heir to the emperor for a time.
According to
Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii as one of his consular friends who confront Claudius in the afterworld as being responsible for their deaths.[4]
References
- ^ Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Gaius", Antichthon, 13 (1979), p. 66
- ^ James H. Oliver, "The Descendants of Asinius Pollio", American Journal of Philology, 68 (1947), pp. 147-160
- ^ Naturalis Historia IX 31 § 67
- ^ Seneca, Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii, 13