Gaius Dillius Vocula

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Gaius Dillius Vocula (died 70 AD) was a Roman commander of the Legio XXII Primigenia during the Batavian revolt. Defending Castra Vetera, he was murdered by rebellious Roman troops. [1]

An inscription found at Rome, commissioned by his wife Helvia Procula, provides details of his cursus honorum . [2] His first recorded office was a commission as a military tribune; although the inscription identifies the unit as "Legio I", there were two active c. 60 with that number: Legio I Germanica, and Legio I Minervia. Then came an appointment as a quattuorviri viarum curandarum, one of the four magistracies that comprised the vigintiviri ; membership in one of these four was a preliminary and required first step toward a gaining entry into the Roman Senate. Next was the traditional Republican magistracy of quaestor, which he served in the public province of Bithynia and Pontus; upon completion of this magistracy Vocula would be enrolled in the Senate. [3] Two more of the traditional magistracies followed: plebeian tribune and praetor; at some time afterwards he received his commission with the Twenty-second Legion.

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References

  1. ↑ Tacitus, Histories, IV.25, 33, 56, 57
  2. ↑ CIL VI, 1402
  3. ↑ Richard Talbert, The Senate of Imperial Rome (Princeton: University Press, 1984), p. 16


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