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English: Male bust of the Pseudo-Vitellius type. Grey veined marble, Italian artwork of the first half of the 16th century, modern copy of an antique head of the Hadrianic era in the Grimani Collection in Venice, once thought to represent the emperor Vitellius.
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It is often difficult to separate fact from fiction in assessing the life and reign of Vitellius. Maligned in the ancient sources as gluttonous and cruel, he was also a victim of a hostile biographical tradition established in the regime of the Flavians who had overthrown him.
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Vitellius was born in AD 15. Vittelius' father, Lucius Vitellius, three times held the office of consul as well as once being the emperor's fellow censor. Vitellius himself became consul in AD 48 and later became proconsul of Africa in about AD 61-2.
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Aulus Vitellius (15-69): Roman senator and general, emperor in the year 69. ... We have three important, but extremely hostile sources for the life and reign of the Roman emperor Aulus Vitellius. The historian Tacitus and the biographer Suetonius lived about fifty years after his reign, and describe him as a gluton who...
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Lucius Vitellius (before 5 BCE - after 51): Roman senator, thrice consul, governor of Syria, father of the emperor Vitellius. ... Lucius Vitellius was born as the son of Publius Vitellius, a knight from Luceria in southern Italy, who served as steward under the emperor Augustus. His son became a close friend of Antonia...
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AKA Aulus Vitellius Germanicus ... Roman emperor from the 2nd of January to the 22nd of December AD 69, was born on the 24th of September AD 15. He was the son of Lucius Vitellius, who had been consul and governor of Syria under Tiberius.
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The Gormandizing of the Emperor Vitellius. ... The Emperor Vitellius, who had a very brief and insignificant reign (69 A. D.), was mainly distinguished for his gormandizing and gluttony. How he enjoyed himself during his short lease of power is told by Suetonius.
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Proclaimed Roman Emperor by the soldiers at Cologne during the civil war of A.D. 69; d. at Rome, 21 Dec., 69 ... d. at Rome, 21 Dec., 69. The Emperor Galba had placed Vitellius at the head of the army of the Lower Rhine, because he considered Vitellius, who lived only for the pleasures of the table, incapable of conspiring.
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2 In any event Publius Vitellius of Nuceria, whether of ancient stock or of ... 2 The emperor Aulus Vitellius, son of Lucius, was born on the eighthº day ...
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