Histories 1.75

1About the same time Calvia Crispinilla, whose execution had been demanded, was saved from danger by various evasions, at the cost of the reputation of an emperor who pretended not to see. 1Nero's tutor in lust, she had crossed to Africa to rouse Clodius Macer to arms, and had quite openly plotted a famine for the Roman people; afterwards she won the favour of the whole state, supported by marriage to an ex-consul, unharmed under Galba, Otho and Vitellius, and later powerful through her wealth and childlessness, which count equally in good times and bad.