Barea

• a town in Hispania Tarraconensis, Cic. Att. 16, 4, 2; Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 19.

• a Roman cognomen, e. g. Q. Marcius Barea, consul A.U.C. 779: Barea Soranus, Tac. A. 16, 23; cf. Juv. 7, 91.

must not be confounded with Q. Marcius Barea, who was consul suffectus in A. D. 26. The gentile name of Barea Soranus seems to have been Servilius, as Servilia was the name of his daughter. Soranus was consul suffectus in A. D. 52 under Claudius, and afterwards proconsul of Asia. By his justice and zeal in the administration of the province he incurred the hatred of Nero, and was accordingly accused by Ostorius Sabinus, a Roman knight, in A. D. 66. The charges brought against him were his intimacy with Rubellius Plautus [Plautus], and the design of gaining over the province of Asia for the purpose of a revolution. His daughter Servilia was also accused for having given money to the Magi, whom she had consulted respecting her father's danger: she was under twenty years of age, and was the wife of Annius Pollio, who had been banished by Nero. Both Soranus and his daughter were condemned to death, and were allowed to choose the mode of their execution. The chief witness against father and daughter was P. Egnatius Celer, a Stoic philosopher, formerly a client and also the teacher of Soranus; to whose act of villany Juvenal alludes (3.116),

"Stoicus occidit Baream, delator amicum, Discipulumque senex."

Egnatius received great rewards from Nero, but was afterwards accused by Musonius Rufus under Vespasian, and condemned to death. (Tac. Ann. 12.53, 16.21, 23, 30_33, Hist. 4.10, 40; Dio Cass. Ixii. 26; Schol. ad Juv. 1.33, 6.551.)

BARE´A (Βαρεία, Ptol. 2.4.8; Baria, Geogr. Rav. 4.42: Vera), a town of the Bastuli, on the coast of Spain, in the extreme SE., reckoned as belonging to the province of Baetica, though within the boundaries of Tarraconensis. (Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4, adscriptum Baeticae Barea; Florez, Esp. S. 10.4, 9.4; coins, Sestini, p. 35.)

See Soranus.