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Lucius Vitellius (before 7 BC – AD 51) was the youngest of four sons of procurator Publius Vitellius and the only one who did not die through politics. He was consul three times, which was unusual during the Roman empire for someone who was not a member of the Imperial family.
Lucius Vitellius was a friend of Tiberius and a supporter of the pro-Roman king of Armenia. He was consul three times, censor, and the father of the emperor Vitellius.
…him and an army under Lucius Vitellius, governor of Syria, against the Parthian ruler Artabanus III, hoping to place Tiridates on the Parthian throne. The Romans entered Seleucia, and Tiridates was crowned king.
Jun 13, 2024 · Quick Reference. Three times consul, father of the emperor Vitellius, was a friend of the emperor Claudius and the most successful politician of the age: he received a public funeral and a statue in the Forum commemorating ‘unswerving devotion to the princeps’: it was indeed to the source of patronage and power that he attached himself ...
Lucius Vitellius (died December 69) was a Roman senator who lived in the 1st century. He was the second son of Lucius Vitellius and Sextilia, and younger brother of emperor Aulus Vitellius. Lucius was suffect consul in the nundinium of July-December 48 with Gaius Vipstanus Messalla Gallus as his colleague.
Apr 20, 2023 · If he failed, the nearest army was controlled by Lucius Vitellius, the governor of Syria from 34 CE for whom friendship with the emperor was the aim always most paramount. Then Tiberius was suddenly dead.
The earliest fictional appearance of a Vitellius was of the Roman Consul in Syria, Lucius Vitellius (the father of Aulus), who intervened in Judaean affairs in the time of Pontius Pilate. It is he who figures in Gustave Flaubert's novella Hérodias (1877) and in Hérodiade, the 1881 opera based on it by Jules Massenet.
