Iulius Classicus

Iulius Classicus was a leader of the Treveri and Roman usurper in the late 1st century .

Classicus worked for a long time as the commander of a cavalry cohort in Roman services on the Middle and Lower Rhine, until he was persuaded to desert Rome in 70 by the Bataver Iulius Civilis , whom he had initially fought. Iulius Tutor and, as the head of the conspiracy, the lingone Iulius Sabinus fought with them to establish a Gallic empire. After the legate Gaius Dillius Vocula was eliminated , Classicus moved into the Neuss legionary camp in imperial robes and had the troops there swear an oath of allegiance. After a few months the uprising was put down by Vespasian's general Petilius Cerialis .

Iulius Classicus is also mentioned on one of the Bloomberg tablets (No. 33). There he is prefect of the Cohors VI Nerviorum . The tablet can be dated to AD 65 to 80.

See also

• Tacitus , Historien 2.14, 4.37, 54–79, 5.19–22.

literature

• Dieter Timpe , Tacitus and the Batavian Rebellion. In: Tassilo Schmitt , Winfried Schmitz , Rolf Rilinger , Aloys Winterling (eds.), Present antiquity - antike present . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2005, pp. 151-188, ISBN 3-486-56754-3 .
• Ralf Urban , The "Batavian Uprising" and the rising of Iulius Classicus . Verl. Trier historical research, Trier 1985 (Trier historical research 8). ISBN 3-923087-07-1 (there p. 76ff.)
• Ralf Urban, Gallia rebellis. Surveys in Gaul as reflected in ancient evidence . Steiner, Stuttgart 1999 ( Historia Einzelschriften , 129), ISBN 3-515-07383-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tacitus, Historien 4.59
2. ↑ inscription ( WT 00033 ).
3. ↑ Roger SO Tomlin: Roman London's first voices: writing tablets from the Bloomberg excavations, 2010-14 (= Mola Monographs 72), London 2016, ISBN 9781907586408 , 130-31
4. ↑ Tab.Lond.Bloomberg <WT33>. Stylus tablet. Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB), accessed November 16, 2019 .