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SORANUS, BAREA

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 430 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SORANUS, BAREA , See also:Roman senator, lived in the reign of See also:Nero. His See also:gentile name was possibly Servilius. In 52 he was See also:consul suffectus, and (perhaps in 61) proconsul of See also:Asia. The upright and considerate manner in which he treated the provincials won him their See also:affection, but at the same See also:time brought upon him the hatred of Nero, who See also:felt specially aggrieved because Soranus had refused to punish a See also:city which had defended the statues of its gods against the Imperial commissioners. Soranus was accused of intimacy with Rubellius See also:Plautus (another See also:object of Nero's hatred), and of endeavouring to obtain the See also:goodwill of the provincials by treasonable intrigues. One of the See also:chief witnesses against him was Egnatius Celer of Berytus, his client and former See also:tutor. Soranus was condemned to See also:death (in 65 or 66), and committed See also:suicide. His daughter Servilia, who was charged with having consulted the sorcerers, professedly in regard to her See also:father's See also:fate, but in reality with evil designs against the See also:emperor, was involved in his downfall. The accuser, who was condemned to death in the reign of Vespasianfor his conduct on this occasion, is a See also:standing example of ingratitude and treachery. See also:Tacitus, See also:Annals, xvi. 30, 32; Hist. iv. ro; See also:Juvenal iii. 116; See also:Die See also:Cassius lxii.

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