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unusual facts about Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso



Fiat justitia ruat caelum

In De Ira (On Anger), Book I, Chapter XVIII, Seneca tells of Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, a Roman governor and lawmaker, when he was angry, ordering the execution of a soldier who had returned from a leave of absence without his comrade, on the ground that if the man did not produce his companion, he had presumably killed the latter.

Lucius Munatius Plancus

By his wife, whose name is unknown, Plancus had a son and a daughter: Lucius Munatius Plancus (ca 45 BC - aft. 14), consul in 13 and legate in 14, who married Aemilia Paulla, daughter of Aemilius Lepidus Paullus and wife Cornelia Lentula; and Munatia Plancina (ca 35 BC - aft. 20), wife of Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso.


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