Publius Vinicius
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]
References[edit]
- ^ Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 426
- ^ Syme, Aristocracy, p. 289
- ^ Velleius Paterculus, The Roman History, II.101.3
- ^ K. M. T. Atkinson, "The Governors of the Province Asia in the Reign of Augustus", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 7 (1958), pp. 329f
- ^ Hermann Dessau, Prosopographia Imperii Romani. part 3, (1987) Berlin. pp. 436-437.
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