Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus (consul 51)
Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus (died AD 66) was a
His career is set forth in an inscription found at
Our next glimpse of Orfitus is in Tacitus, who records that in AD in 65 that he proposed that the months of May and June be renamed Claudius and Germanicus, respectively, in honor of the emperor Nero, explaining that the deaths of Decimus and Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus had rendered the name "Junius" inauspicious.[4] Frederik Juliaan Vervaet has argued that instead of an act of flattery, Nero and his partisans may have interpreted this proposal as a subtle form of criticism. If so, it would explain the actual motivation for Marcus Aquilius Regulus accusing Orfitus in the Senate of being a traitor to Nero the following year.[5][6] Regardless of the motivation, Orfitus was found guilty and executed.[7][8]
Orfitus' son,
References
- Classical Quarterly, 28 (1978), p. 409
- Journal of Roman Studies, 60 (1970), p. 31.
- ^ Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, 341
- ^ Tacitus, Annales, xv. 12.
- ^ Vervaet, "A Note on Syme's Chronology of Vistilia's Children", Ancient Society, 30 (2000), pp. 108 ff.
- ^ Tacitus, Histories, iv. 42.
- ^ Suetonius, "The Life of Nero", 37.
- ^ Cassius Dio, lxii. 27.
Further reading
- PIR2, C 1444.