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Vistilia was an ancient Roman gente.
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Vistilia was an ancient Roman gente.
Ronald Syme speculates that the Vistilii, also spelled Vestilii, came from Umbria, and lists several inscriptions bearing the names of its members from that region of Italy. [1]
Publius Quinctilius Varus was a Roman general and politician under the first Roman emperor Augustus. Varus is generally remembered for having lost three Roman legions when ambushed by Germanic tribes led by Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, whereupon he took his own life.
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Lucius Arruntius was a Roman admiral. He saw action during the War with Sextus Pompeius, and the war of Mark Antony and Octavian. He is most notable for his participation during the Battle of Actium, where he was in command of victorious Augustus' central division. He was also instrumental in convincing Octavian to pardon Gaius Sosius, one of Mark Antony's generals, after his capture. Arruntius was consul in 22 BCE as the colleague of Marcus Claudius Marcellus Aeserninus.
Octavia the Elder, also known as Octavia Major or Octavia Maior was the daughter of the Roman governor and senator Gaius Octavius by his first wife, Ancharia. She was also an elder half-sister to Octavia the Younger and Roman Emperor Augustus. Little is known of her life.
Vistilia was a Roman of the gens Vistilia matron known by her contemporaries for having seven children by six different husbands; Pliny the Elder was more impressed by the fact most of her pregnancies were remarkably brief. Five of her sons became consuls Her daughter Milonia Caesonia became Roman empress through a marriage to Caligula and her granddaughter Domitia Longina became empress through her marriage with Domitian.
Marcus Licinius Crassus, grandson of the triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus, was a Roman Consul in the year 30 BC as the colleague of Octavian. He was best known for his successful campaigns in Macedonia and Thrace in 29–27 BC, for which he was denied customary military honors by Octavian.
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For others of this name see, Lucius Scribonius Libo.
Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus was a Roman senator, and consul ordinarius for the year 51, as the colleague of the emperor Claudius. His father Orfitus was one of the seven sons of Vistilia, a noblewoman who came from a family that had held the praetorship, although some have erroneously stated Servius himself was the husband of Vistilia. He became a member of the gens Cornelia through adoption by an otherwise unknown Servius Cornelius Scipio.
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