person
Marcus Cocceius Nerva
Nerva
also: divus Nerva, the deified Nerva
Roman emperor AD 96–98, who adopted Trajan as his son and successor and was deified after his death. Pliny presents the adoption as divinely guided and Nerva as merely the gods' minister.
Reading notes
- The Letters §4.9.2 Nerva
Marcus Cocceius Nerva, emperor AD 96–98, who recalled Bassus from banishment.
- The Letters §7.31.4 Nerva
The emperor Nerva (reigned 96-98), whose land commission Pollio served on under Corellius Rufus.
- The Letters §10.1.1 your father
The emperor Nerva (reigned AD 96-98), who adopted Trajan and whom Trajan succeeded; deified at his death.
- The Letters §10.8.1 your deified father
The emperor Nerva, Trajan's adoptive father, here recalled for his speech and example urging public munificence.
- Panegyric to Trajan §6 father of the human race
Nerva (emperor AD 96–98). In AD 97 the praetorian guard mutinied and besieged him in the palace, forcing him to surrender the killers of Domitian; Pliny presents the crisis as what drove Nerva to adopt Trajan.
- Panegyric to Trajan §7 deified Nerva
After death an emperor could be consecrated by senatorial decree as divus ('deified'); Trajan secured this honour for his adoptive father, here divus Nerva.