Vitellius
historical figure · 5 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman figure reported by Tacitus as giving deliberately ambiguous answers.
Profane history too furnishes us with an example of the second kind, in the conduct of Vitellius, who, as Tacitus informs us, gave Narcissus doubtful and ambiguous answers, in order to avoid his urgent questions;
and Caecina, after the capitulation of Aventicum, punished Julius Alpinus, one of the leading men, with death, as a chief promoter of the war, leaving the rest to the mercy or cruelty of Vitellius.
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman emperor described as having freely granted Latin status to communities.
Vitellius is carped at by Tacitus for his lavish grants of Latinity (Latium vulgo dilargiri, Hist.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Roman emperor who gained power after defeating Otho's forces
Suetonius Tranquillus was the son of a Roman knight who commanded a legion, on the side of Otho, at the battle which decided the fate of the empire in favour of Vitellius.
Adversus Judaeos
Roman emperor counted with his regnal length in the chronological reckoning.
Vitellius, eight months, twenty-seven days.
De Anima
Author of commentaries cited as the record of the dream about Augustus' future.
It is recorded in the commentaries of Vitellius.