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Gaius Sallustius Passienus Crispus was a figure that in the Roman Empire during the first century AD. He was the adopted grandson and biological great, great nephew of the historian Sallust.
He was a powerful, wealthy and influential soul. This formal consul, was married twice. His first marriage was to Caesar Augustus great niece, Domitia in AD 33. In February/March AD 41, he was asked by the Emperor Claudius, to divorce his cousin and marry his niece Agrippina the Younger. Agrippina recently lost her husband to illness, had returned from exile and had a young son to take care.
Passienus agreed and later married that year to Agrippina the Younger. His stepson was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, who would later become the future Roman Emperor Nero. In AD 47, Passienus mysteriously died. It is rumored that his wife poisoned him, to gain his fortune.
Passienus was an intelligent, humble and witty person. What Passienus is famous for is the epigram that there had never been a better slave or a worse master. This epigram survives in the works of Tacitus. The epigram described the relationship between the Emperor Tiberius and his heir, the future Emperor Caligula.
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