Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (consul 15 BC)

Lucius Calpurnius Piso (* 48 BC; † 32 AD), called Pontifex to differentiate from a same family, a Roman politician in the time of Augustus and Tiberius was.

Piso was Lucius Calpurnius Piso son of Caesoninus; his older (half -? ) Sister Calpurnia was the last wife of Gaius Julius Caesar. Piso was consul in 15 BC. In the following years he was governor of various provinces; as he led 12-10 BC successful war against the Thracian Better and received the ornamenta triumphalia. From 13 AD until his death Piso was prefect.

. According to the Roman philosopher and civil servant Seneca, a contemporary of Piso, he was always drunk after his appointment as commandant of the city ", after he had become it once the greater part of the night he spent at the feast; almost up around noon, he usually slept: that was. his morning stint his official duties, which consisted in the safety of the city, he nevertheless fulfilled the most conscientious: he has received only the Divus Augustus secret orders, when he gave him the command of Thrace, which he had conquered, then Tiberius case of a break after Campania, as he had many suspicions in the city behind and hatred. " ( Letters to Lucilius, 83.14. )

Piso was Pontifex and Arvalbruder. He was also, the self-written poems, the dedicatee of the ars poetica ( " poetry " ) of Horace.

After his death in his eightieth year, he was given a state funeral. .

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• Cassius Dio, Roman History, 54th
• Tacitus, Annals, 6, 11
• Seneca, Letters to Lucilius on morality, 83, 14