In 22, Ennius was accused of treason by the Roman Senate, for having converted a statue of the Roman emperor Tiberius to the common use of silver plate.
[2] However Tiberius forbade Ennius for this matter to be put on trial[2] and saved him from prosecution,[3] although the Roman Senate did not approve of the actions of the emperor.
At an unknown date sometime in the early 1st century, Ennius married a Roman noblewoman from Alexandria in the Roman Province of Egypt who was of Greek, Armenian and Median descent named Claudia Thrasylla.
She was the daughter of Thrasyllus of Mendes and Aka II of Commagene.
[1] Thrasyllus was an Egyptian Greek grammarian and literary commentator who served as the astrologer and became the personal friend of the Emperor Tiberius,[4] while Aka was a princess from the Kingdom of Commagene.