Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus (AD 38–69)
Piso was the son of Marcus Crassus and Scribonia, a descendant of Pompey and Crassus. Two of his brothers were killed by Claudius and Nero, and he himself spent years in exile (Tacitus, Histories 1.14, 1.48). Tacitus describes him as an old-fashioned, austere man.
On January 10, AD 69, Galba adopted him in the Praetorian camp, during a storm, and promised the soldiers no money (Tacitus, Histories 1.18). Five days later, on the day of Otho’s coup, Piso took refuge in the temple of Vesta. He was dragged out and killed. He was thirty. Tacitus writes that the adoption gave him only this: that he died before his older brother.
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