One of the wealthiest people living in Pompeii, Julius Polybius wanted to be a ruler. Pompeii was a Roman colony so it had to follow the laws of the Roman senate.
Gaius During Emperor Claudius' rule, Julius Polybius—a freedman—was promoted to the secretariat. Before the emperor became emperor, Polybius worked as a researcher for Claudius, helping him with his literary, legal, and historical pursuits. This function was given the title a studiis in the imperial bureaucracy.
Claudius was said to have been so grateful for his assistance, according to Suetonius, the biographer and secretary of the Emperor Hadrian, that Polybius was permitted to pass between the consuls while conducting official business. Polybius was brought low by disloyalty. In doing so, he supported the idea that, despite their authority, freedmen were still in a position inferior to the emperor and were therefore to be put to death for crimes against the state.
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