prefectship

Updated: July 26, 2026

Let it, however, be added in his exculpation, that another man of undoubted and scrupulous honesty, Afranius Burrus a man of the old, blunt, faithful type of Roman manliness, whom Agrippina had raised to the Prefectship of the Praetorian cohorts, was willing to share his danger and his responsibilities. Yet he must have lived from the first in the very atmosphere of base and criminal intrigues.

F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar - Seekers after God