Seneca - College of Stoic Philosophers

CHAPTER XIITHE CONSPIRACY OF PISO AND THE DEATHOF SENECA, A.D. 64-65The last public office held by Seneca was thatof consul suffedus, which he shared with TrebelliusMaximus. During their consulship a senatusconsultum was passed to protect executors ortrustees, who by a legal fiction were technicallythe sole heirs of the estates which theyadministered, from liabilities attaching to suchestates, on the principle that no man ought tosuffer on account of a trust which he has faithfullydischarged.^ Trebellius was afterwards governorof Britain, where his inactivity and want ofmilitary experience made him unpopular withthe army. The date of this consulship is generallyassigned to the year 62, on the insufficient groundthat Tacitus makes mention of a decree passed1 'Ins. Tit. 23 (4) Neronis quidem temporibus, Trebellio:Maximo et Annaeo Seneca coss. senatus-consultum factum est,quo cautum est, ut, si haereditas ex fidei-commissi causa restitutasit, actiones, quae jure civili haeredi et in haeredem competerent,ei et in eum darentur, cui ex fidei-commisso restituta esset haereditas.Post quod senatus-consultum, praetor utiles actiones eiet in eum qui recepit haereditatem, quasi haeredi et in haeredem,dare coepit.'