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    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 09: Vitellius
    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 09: Vitellius
    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 09: Vitellius
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    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 09: Vitellius

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 09 - Alexander Thomson

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Aulus Vitellius (Vitellius), by C. Suetonius Tranquillus

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Aulus Vitellius (Vitellius) The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Volume 9.

      Author: C. Suetonius Tranquillus

      Release Date: October 22, 2006 [EBook #6394]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AULUS VITELLIUS ***

      Produced by Tapio Riikonen and David Widger

      THE LIVES OF THE TWELVE CAESARS

                                         By

                             C. Suetonius Tranquillus;

      To which are added,

      HIS LIVES OF THE GRAMMARIANS, RHETORICIANS, AND POETS.

                                The Translation of

                              Alexander Thomson, M.D.

                              revised and corrected by

                               T.Forester, Esq., A.M.

      AULUS VITELLIUS. (427)

      I. Very different accounts are given of the origin of the Vitellian family. Some describe it as ancient and noble, others as recent and obscure, nay, extremely mean. I am inclined to think, that these several representations have been made by the flatterers and detractors of Vitellius, after he became emperor, unless the fortunes of the family varied before. There is extant a memoir addressed by Quintus Eulogius to Quintus Vitellius, quaestor to the Divine Augustus, in which it is said, that the Vitellii were descended from Faunus, king of the aborigines, and Vitellia [689], who was worshipped in many places as a goddess, and that they reigned formerly over the whole of Latium: that all who were left of the family removed out of the country of the Sabines to Rome, and were enrolled among the patricians: that some monuments of the family continued a long time; as the Vitellian Way, reaching from the Janiculum to the sea, and likewise a colony of that name, which, at a very remote period of time, they desired leave from the government to defend against the Aequicolae [690], with a force raised by their own family only: also that, in the time of the war with the Samnites, some of the Vitellii who went with the troops levied for the security of Apulia, settled at Nuceria [691], and their descendants, a long time afterwards, returned again to Rome, and were admitted (428) into the patrician order. On the other hand, the generality of writers say that the founder of the family was a freedman. Cassius Severus [692] and some others relate that he was likewise a cobbler, whose son having made a considerable fortune by agencies and dealings in confiscated property, begot, by a common strumpet, daughter of one

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