Sextus Afranius Burrus
Template:Short description Template:Infobox military person Sextus Afranius Burrus (born AD 1 in Vasio, Gallia Narbonensis;<ref>Template:CIL = ILS 1321. English translation Template:Cite book</ref> died AD 62) was a prefect of the Praetorian Guard and was, together with Seneca the Younger, an advisor to the Roman emperor Nero, making him a very powerful man in the early years of Nero's reign.<ref name="Garzetti2014">Template:Cite book</ref>
Agrippina the Younger chose him as Prefect in 51 to secure her son Nero's place as emperor after the death of Claudius.<ref name="Barrett1998">Template:Cite book</ref> For the first eight years of Nero's rule, Burrus and Nero's former tutor Seneca helped maintain a stable government. Burrus acquiesced to Nero's murder of Agrippina the Younger but lost his influence over Nero anyway. He died in 62, some say from poison, though officially he died of throat cancer.<ref name="Rankov1994">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
The cognomen "Burrus" is the Latin version of the name Pyrrhus, king of Epirus.
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- Tacitus Annales 12.42; 14.51
- Suetonius Nero 35.5
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- Dio 62.13
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