Senecio

• a Roman surname, Tac. Agr. 2; 45; id. A. 13, 12; 15, 50; 15, 56 sq.; Plin. Ep. 3, 11, 3.

a favouríte of Nero at the commencement of his reign, was the son of a freedman of the emperor. (Tac. Ann. 13.12.)

was a native of Baetica in Spain, where he served as quaestor. He was put to death by Domitian on the accusation of Metius Carus, who charged him with having been a candidate for no public office after the quaestorship, and with having written the life of Helvidius Priscus. He wrote the latter work at the request of Fannia, the wife of Helvidius. (D. C. 67.13; Tac. Agr. 2, 45; Plin. Ep. 1.5, 4.7, 11, 7.19, 33.)

consul suffectus, A. D. 98, and consul A. D. 99, 102, 107, is probably the same person who was a friend of the younger Pliny (Plin. Ep. 1.13), and whom Plutarch addresses in several of his lives. (Thescus, 1, Demosth. 1, Brut. 1.)

a friend of Nero, nevertheless took part in Piso's conspiracy against the emperor, and on its detection was obliged to put an end to his life. (Tac. Ann. 15.50, 56, 70.)