The Death of a Young Senator

Lucilla was forced to give up the prize box at the theatre in favor of crispina. Now that her younger brother wore the purple, his pretty little thing of a wife, crispina, suddenly supplanted lucilla. As one 81 gave way to one 82, the plan hardened and the details were set. A young senator and nephew of claudius pompeiionus, named pompeus quintanus, was enlisted to actually lay the killing stroke. One night as comedus returned home from the theatre, quintanus was hiding in the shadowy porticoes of the colosseum. He leapt out of his hiding as the imperial party passed, catching the emperor and