Cocceius Nerva

, a friend of Horace and Mecænas, and grandfather to the emperor Nerva. He was one of those who settled the disputes between August us and Antony. He afterwards accompanied Tiberius in his retreat in Camp an i a, and starved himself to death. Tacitus , Annals , bk. 4 , ch. 58 ; bk. 6 , ch. 26 .— Horace , bk. 1 , satire 5, li. 27 .――An architect of Rome, one of whose buildings is still in being, the present cathedral of Naples.――A nephew of Otho. Plutarch. ――A man to whom Nero granted a triumph, after the discovery of the Pisonian conspiracy. Tacitus , Annals , bk. 15 , ch. 72 .