Caecina

Family: Vitellius · Role: general · First appears: Otho

Life events

• Spurina's forces repulsed Vitellius's attack and secured Placentia.(Otho · 📍 Placentia)
  • With: Spurina
  • “the besieged bravely repulsed them, and, repelling the enemy with great slaughter, secured the safety of a noble city”
• Otho's troops opened the gates, fraternized with Caecina's men, and submitted to Vitellius.(Otho · 📍 Bedriacum)
  • With: Titianus Vitellius
  • “others opened the gates and went out, and mingled freely with those they met; and instead of acts of hostility, there was nothing but mutual shaking of hands and congratulations, everyone taking the oaths and submitting to Vitellius.”
• Otho's remaining soldiers acknowledged Vitellius, received pardon, and served under Caecina.(Otho)
  • With: Vitellius Pollio
  • “As soon as the soldiers perceived this, they owned Vitellius, and so got their pardon, and served under Caecina.”

Otho

• with Fabius Valens (Valens and Caecina represented Vitellius in the conference.) “the conference should be between Celsus and Gallus on one part, and Valens with Caecina on the other”
• with Marius Celsus (Caecina greeted Celsus and accompanied him.) “Caecina came up to inform himself of the tumult, which he quieted, and, giving a friendly greeting to Celsus, took him in his company and proceeded towards Bedriacum”
• with Vitellius (Caecina commanded for Vitellius.) “Caecina and Valens, commanding for Vitellius, had possessed themselves of the Alps”
• with Annius Gallus (They were opposing delegates at the proposed conference.) “the conference should be between Celsus and Gallus on one part, and Valens with Caecina on the other”
• with Fabius Valens (The two generals competed and blamed one another.) “But some lay the blame on Caecina, saying, that out of a desire to gain the victory by himself before Fabius joined him, he committed sundry other errors of lesser consequence”
• with Vitellius (After acknowledging Vitellius, the soldiers served under Caecina.) “As soon as the soldiers perceived this, they owned Vitellius, and so got their pardon, and served under Caecina”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.