A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

a man of praetorian rank, was accused in the reign of Domitian of the crime of incest with Cornelia, the chief of the vestal virgins (virgo maxima). His guilt was

doubtful, but as the tyrant was anxious to signalize his reign by the punishment of a vestal, Licinianus confessed that he was guilty, in order to save himself from certain death. In reward for this complaisance, he was simply banished, and Nerva subsequently allowed him to reside in Sicily as the place of his banishment. Here he supported himself by teaching rhetoric, having been previously one of the most eloquent pleaders in the courts at Rome. (Plin. Ep. 4.11; Suet. Dom. 8.)