Marcus Suillius Nerullinus was a

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, who was active during the

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. He was consul ''ordinarius'' in the year 50 with Gaius Antistius Vetus as his colleague. Nerullinus was the son of Publius Suillius Rufus, who was suffect consul in 41 and a feared ''

delator Delator (plural: ''delatores'', feminine: ''delatrix'') is Latin for a denouncer, one who indicates to a court another as having committed a punishable deed. Secular Roman law In Roman history, it was properly one who gave notice (''deferre' ...

''. His mother was the stepdaughter of

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, but we are not told her name. Anne-Marie Lewis has argued this woman was not only the daughter of Paullus Fabius Maximus, consul in 11 BC, and the daughter (whose name we do not know) of Servius Sulpicus Rufus, the son of the homonymous orator and jurist, but she was also the stepdaughter of Marcia, second wife of Paullus, with whom she had an affectionate and long-lasting relationship. Suillius Caesoninus was his brother. The wealth and power of his father facilitated Nerullinus' advancement through his senatorial career. However, when a number of ''delatores'', after successfully prosecuting his father for mismanagement while

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ar governor of

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, they then attacked him "on the strength of men's hatred of the father and some charges of extortion. At that point the emperor

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intervened and ended the prosecution, "as if implying that vengeance was fully satisfied."

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, ''

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