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Vestinus was a man of great loftiness of character, and had never evinced that pliancy of temper, and that submissiveness to the imperial will, which Nero required. His position, too, as consul, which was the highest civil office in the commonwealth, gave him a vast influence over the people of Rome, so that Nero feared as well as hated him.
XXXV. He had, besides Octavia, two other wives: Poppaea Sabina, whose father had borne the office of quaestor, and who had been married before to a Roman knight: and, after her, Statilia Messalina, great-grand-daughter of Taurus who was twice consul, and received the honour of a triumph. To obtain possession of her, he put to death her husband, Atticus Vestinus, who was then consul.
Certain soldiers of the guard were then sent in to Vestinus in the banqueting-room, to inform him that the tribune wished to speak with him on important business.
The consul Vestinus. Large force sent to arrest Vestinus. Vestinus arrested. His extraordinary fate. Nero is pleased. The guests at Vestinus's supper. Appearances of public rejoicing. Nero grants gifts to the army. Nature of despotic government. Secret of their power. Doubt in respect to Piso's conspiracy.
They brought her back to life, or rather to a semblance of life; for she never really recovered so as to be herself again, during the few lonely and desolate years through which she afterward lingered. There was another Roman citizen of the highest rank who fell an innocent victim to the angry passions which the discovery of this plot awakened in Nero's mind. It was the consul Vestinus.
It happened that, at the time when Nero sent his troop to make the arrest, Vestinus was entertaining a large party of friends at supper.
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