Antonius Natalis ( AD 65) was an

ancient Roman In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman people, Roman civilisation from the founding of Rome, founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, collapse of the Western Roman Em ...

of the

equestrian order The (; , though sometimes referred to as " knights" in English) constituted the second of the property/social-based classes of ancient Rome, ranking below the senatorial class. A member of the equestrian order was known as an (). Descript ...

who took part in the

Pisonian conspiracy The conspiracy of Gaius Calpurnius Piso in 65 CE was a major turning point in the reign of the Roman emperor Nero (reign 54–68). The plot reflected the growing discontent among the ruling class of the Roman state with Nero's increasingly d ...

against

Nero Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( ; born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68) was a Roman emperor and the final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 until his ...

. As a conspirator, he provided Gaius Calpurnius Piso with secretive information regarding the emperor. After

Flavius Scaevinus Flavius Scaevinus, a praetorian tribune and ''quaestor'', was a member of the Pisonian conspiracy against Nero. It was through his freedman Milichus that Nero discovered the conspiracy. Afterwards, history is silent on the fate of Flavius, with ...

's freedman, Milichus, alerted Nero of Piso's conspiracy, Natalis, having met with Scaevinus that day, was suspected of being a part of the conspiracy. When he was questioned, Natalis disclosed information vital to the conspiracy, thereby avoiding punishment.Tacitus, ''Annals'' 15.60-61

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