Taurus, Statilius
4. M. Statilius Taurus was consul A. D. 44 with L. Quintius Crispinus Secundus. and afterwards governed Africa as proconsul. He possessed great wealth, which proved his ruin. Agrippina, coveting his gardens, got Tarquitius Priscus, who had been the legate of Taurus in Africa. to accuse the latter of repetundac and of magic. Taurus put an end to his own life before the senate pronounced sentence. (D. C. 9.13; Tac. Ann. 12.59, 14.46.)
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.