Deed — 2 authors face each other below

the Pisonian conspiracy

kind: conspiracy · 65 CE — the editor’s frame · 5 mentions across 5 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

The plot of Caius Piso against Nero, its betrayal, and the deaths it fed — Seneca's forced suicide among them.

Where the accounts part — the record’s own argument; the witnesses below carry the receipts

Tacitus gives the conspiracy a book's worth of names, motives, and dyings — Seneca opening his veins with his wife, the poison that failed him ready in reserve; Suetonius spends two sentences: two conspiracies discovered, the Pisonian 'the earlier and more dangerous,' and Seneca 'driven to suicide' by the pupil who had sworn he would rather die than harm him. Scale of telling is itself the divergence: the analyst's tragedy against the biographer's charge-sheet.

The regnal line — the editor’s table of years, never the record’s voice

Anchored at 65 CE on the editor’s table of years .

· 65 CE — date secure ·

65 CE — Tacitus opens the year by its consuls, Silius Nerva and Atticus Vestinus (Ann. 15.48).

The accounts, side by side — each witness in its own words; every quote is the served record’s, linked to its episode

Tacitus · one account

15.48–15.74 the principal narrative The full conspiracy narrative: recruitment, betrayal, the roll of deaths.

now a conspiracy was planned, and at once became formidable, for which senators, knights, soldiers, even women, had given their names Tac. Ann. 15.48

Then followed the destruction of Annæus Seneca, a special joy to the emperor Tac. Ann. 15.60

he embraced his wife; then softening awhile from the stern resolution of the hour Tac. Ann. 15.63

The Annals · Alfred John Church & William Jackson Brodribb, 1876

Suetonius · one account

35–36 in passing The plot in Suetonius' ledger of cruelties, with Seneca's death charged directly to Nero, oath and all.

The earlier and more dangerous of these was that of Piso at Rome Suet. Nero 36

He drove his tutor Seneca to suicide, although when the old man often pleaded to be allowed to retire and offered to give up his estates, he had sworn most solemnly that he did wrong to suspect him Suet. Nero 35

Nero · J. C. Rolfe, 1913

Who stands in this deed — standing in the same episodes; counted by the house’s first pass

Nero — 3 episodes shared Piso — a candidate entry Agrippina — a candidate entry Antonia — a candidate entry Aulus — a candidate entry Claudius — a candidate entry Natalis — a candidate entry Octavia — a candidate entry Poppaea — 1 episode shared

Doors to the sister houses

logoi — the words

No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.

mythoi — the stories

No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.

The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served

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