The Political Murders of Four Ex-Consuls

The political murders of four ex consuls in early one 18 would be a black that hadrian would spend the rest of his life trying to spin, justify, deny and just plain forget. The affair was eventually laid at the feet of hadrian's old guardian and the current pretorian prefect ationus. Antionus supposedly uncovered information that the four high ranking senators were engaged in a plot to murder or overthrow hadrian. He either at hadrian's direct order or on his own initiative, had the men seized and executed without trial. And their deaths shocked the roman alite, who became convinced that they were dealing with a meglamaniacal, psychopathic egot