Marcus Vinicius (Consul 19 BC)

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Marcus Vinicius was a Roman politician and general at the time of Augustus .

He came from Cales in Campania and was named after his praetur in 25 BC. BC governor of the province of Gallia Comata . In 19 BC Vinicius became a suffect consul . From 14 to 8 BC BC he commanded troops in the Balkans, where he fought against the Pannonians. Between 11 and 9 BC Vinicius was governor of the province of Illyricum . A few years later, 1 to 3/4 AD, he became commander in Germania (which at that time was not a province of its own) and fought a Germanic uprising ( Immensum bellum ), which was only defeated by his successor, Augustus' stepson Tiberius .

Vinicius belonged to the priestly college of the Quindecimviri sacris faciundis and was friends with Augustus.

literature

  • Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR )² V 660.
  • Ronald Syme : The Roman Revolution. Power struggles in ancient Rome . Revised German new edition, Stuttgart 2003, p. 758 (index).
  • Ronald Syme: The Augustan Aristocracy . Oxford et al. a. 1986, p. 44 (and passim).
personal data
SURNAME Vinicius, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician and general, consul 19 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH before 25 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 4