Today I learned on Nostr: TIL that the Emperor Claudius' son Britannicus despised his older cousin Nero, ...

TIL that the Emperor Claudius' son Britannicus despised his older cousin Nero, persistently calling him his birth name "Ahenobarbus" despite getting renamed when Claudius adopted him as his co-heir. Shortly after Nero became emperor, he ordered Britannicus murdered with poison at a banquet.

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Nero*.html#7
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