Publius Egnatius Celer

Publius Celer Egnatius was a stoic philosophy teacher who worked under the emperors Nero and Vespasian in Rome.

His precise lifetime and its origin is uncertain; according to Cassius Dio, he came from Berytus, the modern Beirut, Juvenal intimates that Tarsus was his home. In the year 66 he denounced the consular Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus, whose friend, teacher and client he had been, and his daughter Servilia and told reward before the Senate wrong against them. Soranus was the majesty crime ( crimen laesae maiestatis ) found guilty and sentenced to death; He eventually committed suicide.

Under Vespasian the end of the year 69 of the Stoic philosopher Gaius Musonius Rufus Celer accused of perjury; the Cynic Demetrius took over his defense. The following year, Celer, was found guilty and banished in the presence of Domitian, who represented his father Vespasian, confiscated his property.

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• Tacitus, Annals 16.30 to 33.
• Tacitus, Histories 4.10; 4.40.
• Juvenal, Satires 3.116.
• Cassius Dio 62.26.