Pallas (d. AD 62)

Pallas managed the emperor’s treasury. Suetonius writes that the Senate granted him and Narcissus great gifts and the insignia of office (Claudius 28). In the dispute over the emperor’s new wife after Messalina’s death he backed Agrippina (Tacitus, Annals 12.1–2), and in AD 50 he persuaded Claudius to adopt Nero (12.25).

Tacitus notes that Narcissus accused Pallas of an affair with Agrippina. It is not known whether this is true (12.65). After Nero came to the throne, Pallas aroused resentment by his excessive arrogance (13.2).

In AD 55 Nero removed him from managing the treasury, which enraged Agrippina (Annals 13.14). According to Dio he was later killed because he had a great fortune (62.14).