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	Vitellius
		Vitellius rewarded his German legions by dispanding the praetorian guard as well as the urban cohorts of the city of Rome and offering the positions to them.
		Had Otho died a dignified death, then Vitellius comments on the 'the sent of death of a fellow Roman being very sweet' when visiting the battle field of Cremona (which was still littered with bodies at the time), did little to endear him to his subjects.
		Vitellius was carried to his wife's house on the Aventine, from where he intended to flee to Campania.
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	Vitellius
		Aulus Vitellius Germanicus Roman Emperor from January 2 to the December 22 AD 69, was born, on September 24 AD One of the emperors in the "year of the four emperors", he was the son of Lucius Vitellius[?], who had been consul and governor of Syria under Tiberius.
		Vitellius was consul in 48, and (perhaps in 60-61) proconsul of Africa, in which capacity he is said to have acquitted himself with credit.
		During his brief administration Vitellius showed indications of a desire to govern wisely, but he was completely under the control of Valens and Caecina, who for their own ends encouraged him in a course of vicious excesses which threw his better qualities into the background.
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	Vitellius Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Aulus Vitellius Germanicus, usually just Vitellius, (September 24 15 AD - December 22 69) was Roman Emperor from January 2 69 to December 22 of the same year, one of the emperors in the "Year of the four emperors".
		He was the son of Lucius Vitellius, who had been consul and governor of Syria under Tiberius.
		Vitellius the son was consul in 48, and (perhaps in 60-61) proconsul of Africa, in which capacity he is said to have acquitted himself with credit.
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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1272 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		vitellius was father of the emperor and of the emperor's brother Lucius.
		Vitellius, affecting profound veneration, with his eyes on the ground, and in a faint tremulous voice replied, " To you gods alone, my master, is it permitted to see one another." Nobody ever beat this, and Vitellius reigned the king of flatterers.
		When A. Vitellius quitted Rome for the camp in the Apennines, Lucius was left to defend the city ; but on the news of Tarracina being occupied by the partizans of Vespasian, the emperor sent his brother Lucius with six cohorts and five hundred horse to put down the insurrection in Campania.
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	Aulus Vitellius - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		AULUS VITELLIUS, Roman emperor from the 2nd of January to the 22nd of December A.D. 69, was born on the 24th of September A.D. He was the son of Lucius Vitellius, who had been consul and governor of Syria under Tiberius.
		Aulus was -consul in 48, and (perhaps in 60-61) proconsul of Africa, in which capacity he is said to have acquitted himself with credit.
		Far from being ambitious or scheming, he was lazy and selfindulgent, fond of eating and drinking, and owed his elevation to the throne to Caecina and Valens, commanders of two legions on the Rhine.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Aulus_Vitellius (436 words)

	Aulus Vitellius, part 1: Youth and early career
		Aulus Vitellius (15-69): Roman senator and general, emperor in the year 69.
		Aulus Vitellius was born on September 7, 15, as the oldest son of Sextilia and Lucius Vitellius, still a young man who was a protégé of the emperor Tiberius.
		Vitellius may have been in love, because the marriage was beneath his rank: as a former consul and son of a former consul, he belonged to the highest nobility, and Galeria's father was of praetorian rank.
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	Aulus Vitellius: part 2: The road to power
		Vitellius was a former consul and had, as we have seen above, already been governor of a province with an army, where he 'had shown an exceptional integrity'.
		Fabius Valens and Aulus Caecina Alienus, the commander of the Fourth legion Macedonica at Mainz, argued that Vitellius should assume the purple, and on 1 January 69, the soldiers in Germania Inferior revolted.
		Vitellius' Fifth legion Alaudae, I Italica and XXI Rapax defeated Otho's XIII Gemina, I Adiutrix, and the imperial guard; and later, the Batavians defeated the gladiators.
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	Římské císařství: Vitellius (69)
		Vitellius zahálel a užíval vladařského štěstí, jako by trůn již získal.
		Podle Dia Cassia nechal Vitellius tolerantně v oběhu mince, ražené za Nerona, Galby a Othona a dary, které někomu věnovali, uznával jako platné a nepřipravoval je o ně.
		Vitellius prohlásil, že se vzdává vlády pro mír a blaho státu, aby si na něj lidé zachovali vzpomínky a aby měli slitovaní s jeho bratrem, manželkou a dětmi a v nedůstojném pláči odepjal dýku a odevzdal ji konzulovi.
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	Roman Emperors DIR Vitellius
		Aulus Vitellius was born in September, 15 AD, the son of Lucius Vitellius and his wife Sestilia.
		Aulus seems to have moved with equal ease in aristocratic circles, successively winning the attention of the emperors Gaius, Claudius, and Nero through flattery and political skill.
		With respect to marriage and family, Vitellius first wed a certain Petroniana, the daughter of a consul, sometime in the early to mid thirties A.D. The union produced a son, Petronianus, allegedly blind in one eye and emancipated from his father's control as a result of being named his mother's heir.
	www.roman-emperors.org /vitell.htm (1929 words)

	Vitellius - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vitellius was emperor of Rome in the year of four emperors (69).
		Aulus Vitellius was proclaimed emperor on 2 January 69 by the legions of the Rhine, who had fought against Vindex for Nero.
		Vitellius was now sole ruler of the Roman empire and proceeded to Rome, which he entered on 17 July 69.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Vitellius (582 words)

	Vitellius
		In any event Publius Vitellius of Nuceria, whether of ancient stock or of parents and forefathers in whom he could take no pride, unquestionably a Roman eques and a steward of Augustus' property, left four sons of high rank with the same name and differing only in their forenames: Aulus, Quintus, Publius and Lucius.
		Aulus, who was given to luxury and especially notorious for the magnificence of his feasts, died a consul, appointed to the office with Domitius [32 C.E.], father of the emperor Nero.
		They dragged Vitellius from his hiding-place and when they asked him his name (for they did not know him) and if he knew where Vitellius was, he attempted to escape them by a lie.
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	AULUS VITELLIUS. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is certain, however, that Publius Vitellius, of Nuceria, whether of an ancient family, or of low extraction, was a Roman knight, and a procurator to Augustus.
		Aulus died in the enjoyment of the consulship
		Vitellius, by being a parasite of all the emperors from Tiberius to Nero inclusively, had risen to a high military rank, by which, with a spirit of enterprise, and large promises to the soldiery, it was not difficult to snatch the reins of government, while they were yet fluctuating in the hands of Otho.
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		The fame for gluttony and avarice that Vitellius possessed was probably the reason Galba appointed him in 68 to the powerful office of governor of Germania Inferior.
		From the start, however, Vitellius carefully cultivated the favor of the Legions so that on January 2, 69, in conjunction with the plotting of Fabius Valens and Caecina Alienus, two legates of the Rhine legions, he was proclaimed emperor.
		Vitellius was found in the palace and murdered.
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	Vitellius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vitellius Emperor A. Aulus Vitellius, governor of Lower Germany, was proclaimed emperor by his troops who hated the current emperor for his harsh discipline and stinginess with bonus payments to the troops.
		Vitellius' two able generals, Valens and Caecina, defeated the troops of Otho, another imperial contender near the town of Cremona.
		Vitellius' own troops were deserting him and his two generals were of no use to him.
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	ACCLA - XII Caesars - Emperor Vitellius by Hugh Kramer
		Aulus Vitellius, who was to become the ninth Emperor of Rome, was born in September of 15 CE to Lucius Vitellius and his wife, Sextilia.
		Vitellius was the most ardent champion of his patron’s lyre-playing and the leader of the sycophants who begged for performances.
		Vitellius himself was no soldier, his general Valens was ill, and Caecina, who was now a consul, had begun collaborating with the enemy.
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		Aulus Vitellius was the son of Lucius Vitellius, a well-fed Senator who attained a reputation as a sycophant of the Emperor Claudius.
		Vitellius Senior is depicted seated to left on the reverse of this rare aureus issued by his son during his brief seven-month reign.
		Vitellius dithered as the enemy approached, at one point abdicating the throne in return for a guarantee of his and his family's safety.
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	AULUS VITELLIUS - Online Information article about AULUS VITELLIUS
		Aulus was consul in 48, and (perhaps in 6o-61) proconsul of See also:
		Vespasian, Vitellius, deserted by many of his adherents, would have resigned the See also:
		" Yet I was once your emperor," were the last and, as far as we know, the noblest words of Vitellius.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /VIR_WAT/VITELLIUS_AULUS.html (611 words)

	e. The High Empire. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		In 69, the year of the emperors (Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian), the provincial armies asserted their powers in a civil war, which ended with the victory of Vespasian, and the establishment of the Flavian dynasty.
		The eight legions on the Rhine refused allegiance to Galba, and on Jan. 3 the four in lower Germany saluted as emperor their legate Aulus Vitellius (b.
		Meanwhile, the troops of Vitellius approached Italy in two divisions under Valens and Caecina.
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	Vitellius, Aulus - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The generals who favored him defeated his rival, Otho, in Italy, and Vitellius was briefly the emperor.
		His troops were defeated at Cremona, and Vitellius fought with Vespasian's brother, Flavius Sabinus, in Rome.
		When Vespasian's troops entered Rome, Vitellius was captured while in hiding and murdered.
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		Her eldest son, Aulus, also a friend of Claudius and his successor Gaius Caligula, amassed a considerable fortune as proconsul in Africa.
		Vitellius wrote Otho's brother and threatened to kill him and his family if the women were harmed.
		Vitellius defeated Otho, and on his arrival in Rome, he embraced Sextilia and declared her Augusta.
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	Vitellius
		Executive summary: Roman Emperor, 69 AD Roman emperor from the 2nd of January to the 22nd of December AD 69, was born on the 24th of September AD 15.
		Aulus was consul in 48, and (perhaps in 60-61) proconsul of Africa, in which capacity he is said to have acquitted himself with credit.
		In fact, he was never acknowledged as emperor by the entire Roman world, though at Rome the senate accepted him and decreed to him the usual imperial honors.
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	Vitellius - WikiLeasing.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vitellius was the son f Lucius Vitellius, who had been consul and governor of Syria under Tiberius.
		Vitellius the son was consul in 48, and (perhaps in 60-61) proconsul of Africa, in which acpacity he is said to have acquitted himself with credit.
		To reward his victorious legionaries, Vitellius disbanded the existing Praetorian Guard and installed his own men instead.In July 6, Vitellius learnt that the armies of the eastern provinces had proclaimed a rival emperor; their commander, Titus Flavius Vespasianus.
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	The Histories [of Ancient Rome] by Cornelius Tacitus:book 1
		Vitellius sent information to his legions and their commanders that the upper army had risen against Galba, and put it to them that they must either fight the rebels or else, if they preferred agreement and peace, they must nominate an emperor.
		Vitellius framed a letter to Otho's brother Titianus in which he threatened to put the latter and his son to death in the event of any harm befalling his own mother and children.
		Even Lucius Vitellius was included in their number, for he was treated no differently from the rest and not as the brother of an emperor or of a traitor.
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	The Emperor Vitellius -- 69 AD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vitellius (Aulus Vitellius) was well liked by Caligula, Claudius, and Nero.
		Upon learning of Galba's death, Vitellius gathered up other legions who had refused to pledge allegiance to Galba and marched to Rome to meet Otho's army.
		Vespasian marched on Rome--his army found Vitellius, tortured him in public, and then killed him, thus ending the civil war and beginning the Flavian rule.
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	Vitellius
		Aulus Vitellius was born on 24 September in the year 15.
		In the east, Vespasian arose in revolt, and was hailed emperor in Egypt and Syria.
		On 24 December 69 Vitellius was dragged through the streets, tortured and flung into the river Tiber.
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		Vitellius selbst, ein als Vielfraß und Säufer verschriener Mensch, begann seine Herrschaft friedvoll, ohne eine Verfolgung der Anhänger Othos oder Neros durchzuführen.
		Von Vitellius entgegen gesandte Truppen gingen ebenfalls zu Vespasian über.
		Vitellius wollte zu diesem Zeitpunkt abdanken, wurde aber von seinen Anhängern davon abgehalten.
	www.romanum.de /test/biographien/vitellius.html (323 words)

	Coins of the Roman Emperor Vitellius (69AD)
		After brief negotiations, the legions of Vitellius marched south into Italy and defeated Otho who had replaced Galba in a coup just days after Vitellius was proclaimed emperor.
		Vitellius' troops were defeated and the emperor announced his intent to abdicate.
		Vitellius was dragged through the streets and murdered on 20 December 69 AD after a reign of just less than a year.
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	Wk. 15.1: Tacitus' Histories
		Vitellius was full of anxiety and did not listen to any of his counsels.
		Tacitus describes the exit of Vitellius as such an astounding event that he can’t believe there was anybody who would not be affected by it.
		Contrary to Sabinus, Vitellius was the one who had an army of men on his side ready to fight and kill innocent people Sabinus purpose was to emphasize peace and make Vitellius feel sorry for his actions.
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