[1] Follower of Septimius Severus
N. was a schoolteacher in Rome who, as a senator on commission from Septimius Severus pretended to raise for him an army in Gaul. In fact he achieved considerable success in battle against the troops of Clodius [II 1] Albinus. N. allegedly seized 70 million sesterces for Severus, after whose victory in AD 97 N. renounced all his privileges and was content with only a small maintenance pension (Cass. Dio 7…