Sextus Afranius Burrus (born AD 1 in Vasio, Gallia Narbonensis;[1] died AD 62) was a prefect of the Praetorian Guard and was, together with Seneca the Younger, an advisor to the Roman emperor Nero, making him a very powerful man in the early years of Nero's reign.
[2] Agrippina the Younger chose him as Prefect in 51 to secure her son Nero's place as emperor after the death of Claudius.
[3] For the first eight years of Nero's rule, Burrus and Nero's former tutor Seneca helped maintain a stable government.
[4][5] The cognomen "Burrus" is the Latin version of the name Pyrrhus, king of Epirus.
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