Publius Vinicius

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Publius Vinicius was a Roman senator active during the reigns of Emperors Augustus and Tiberius. He was the son of Marcus Vinicius, consul in 19 BC. [1]

Vinicius was ordinary consul in AD 2 with Publius Alfenus Varus, and was an imperial legate for Macedonia and Thracia. There he commanded a legion as military tribune under Lucius Calpurnius Piso. [2] [3] Several years after his consulate, Vinicius was proconsular governor of Asia at some point between AD 10 and 15, but probably in AD 10/11. [4]

His son Marcus Vinicius was consul in AD 30 and a second time in the year 45. [5]

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References

  1. Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 426
  2. Syme, Aristocracy, p. 289
  3. Velleius Paterculus, The Roman History, II.101.3
  4. K. M. T. Atkinson, "The Governors of the Province Asia in the Reign of Augustus", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte , 7 (1958), pp. 329f
  5. Hermann Dessau, Prosopographia Imperii Romani. part 3, (1987) Berlin. pp. 436-437.
Political offices
Preceded by
Gaius Julius Caesar,
and Marcus Herennius Picens
Consul of the Roman Empire
AD 2
with Publius Alfenus Varus
Succeeded by
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio,
and Titus Quinctius Crispinus Valerianus

as Suffect consuls