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Sextus Afranius Burrus

Sextus Afranius Burrus, Praetorian Prefect, was Nero's tutor and later advisor. Burrus was born in Gallia Narbonensis. He was chosen by Agrippina the Younger as Prefect in order to secure her son Nero's place as emperor after the death of Claudius. For the first eight years of Nero's rule of the Roman Empire he and Seneca the Younger helped maintain a stable government. He acquiesced to Nero's murder of Agrippina the Younger but he lost his influence over Nero anyway. He died in 62, some say from poison.

The Roman cognomen "Burrus" is the Latin version of the name Pyrrhus, the Macedonian king.