Quintianus, Afranius
a senator of dissolute iife, had been ridiculed by Nero in a poem, and in revenge took part in Piso's conspiracy against that emperor. On the detection of the conspiracy he had to put an end to his life, which he did, says Tacitus, "non ex priore vitae mollitia." (Tac. Ann. 15.49, 56, 70.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.