a freedman of Flavius Scaevinus, gave Nero the first information of Piso's conspiracy in A. D. 66. Milichus was liberally rewarded by the emperor, and assumed the surname of Soter, or the Preserver. (Tac. Ann. 15.54, 55, 71.)
[W.B.D]A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890