Flavius Clemens (consul, AD 95)

Suetonius calls him a man of “contemptible inertia. ” Domitian publicly designated his two small sons as successors and gave them the names Vespasian and Domitian.

Suetonius calls him a man of “contemptible inertia.” Domitian publicly designated his two small sons as successors and gave them the names Vespasian and Domitian. In AD 95, almost before his consulship had ended, he suddenly had him executed on a trivial suspicion; Dio gives the charge of “atheism.” Suetonius writes that this deed, more than any other, hastened the emperor’s own downfall.