Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Pallas

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Pallas

A favourite freedman of the emperor Claudius, under whom, in conjunction with Narcissus, he administered the affairs of the Empire. It was Pallas who persuaded Claudius to marry Agrippina, and to adopt Domitius, afterwards the emperor Nero. By Nero he was deprived of his offices in A.D. 56, and owing to his immense wealth, which excited the jealousy of the emperor, he was destroyed by poison in the year 63 (Tac. Ann. xi. 29; xii. 2, 25Tac. Ann. 65; xiii. 23). His riches were so great as to become proverbial, as can be seen by the line in Juvenal (i. 107).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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