Servius Asinius Celer (died AD 46) was a

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senator active during the

Principate The Principate is the name sometimes given to the first period of the Roman Empire from the beginning of the reign of Augustus in 27 BC to the end of the Crisis of the Third Century in AD 284, after which it evolved into the so-called Dominate. ...

. He was suffect consul in the second half of the year 38 with Sextus Nonius Quinctilianus as his colleague. Celer was the son of

Gaius Asinius Gallus Gaius Asinius Gallus (before 38 BC – AD 33) was a Roman senator, son of Gaius Asinius Pollio and Quinctia. He was the second husband of Vipsania, eldest daughter of Marcus Agrippa and first wife of Tiberius, who ultimately imprisoned him. Bi ...

, consul in 8 BC, and

Vipsania Agrippina Vipsania Agrippina (; 36 BC – 20 AD) was the first wife of the Emperor Tiberius. She was the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Pomponia Caecilia Attica, thus a granddaughter of Titus Pomponius Atticus, the best friend of Cicero. Biogr ...

, a former wife of the emperor

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. Celer had several brothers, among them

Gaius Asinius Pollio Gaius Asinius Pollio (75 BC – AD 4) was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic, and historian, whose lost contemporary history provided much of the material used by the historians Appian and Plutarch. Pol ...

, consul in 23, accused of conspiracy by

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;

Marcus Asinius Agrippa Marcus Asinius Agrippa was a Roman Empire, Roman Roman senate, senator, who was active during the Principate. He was Roman consul, consul in AD 25 as the colleague of first Cossus Cornelius Lentulus (consul AD 25), Cossus Cornelius Lentulus, then ...

, consul in 25; Asinius Saloninus; and Asinius Gallus. In addition, Celer was half brother of

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, son of his mother with Tiberius and heir to the emperor for a time. According to

Pliny the Elder Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic ' ...

, Celer was a well-known gourmand who paid 8,000 sesterces for a fish. In the year 46, despite his friendship with the emperor Claudius, Celer was accused of participating in a conspiracy to kill the emperor and condemned to death.

Seneca the Younger Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (; 65 AD), usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and, in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature. Seneca was born in ...

mentions him in his '' Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii'' as one of his consular friends who confront Claudius in the afterworld as being responsible for their deaths.Seneca, ''Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii'', 13

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