Caius Volusius

Family: Flavian · Role: soldier · First appears: Histories III.25-29

Life events

Caius Volusius became the first attacker inside the camp and announced its capture.(Histories III.25-29 · 📍 Cremona)
- “All the authorities agree that Caius Volusius of the Third legion was the first man in.”

employer: Antonius Primus (Antonius is the named general leading the assault in which Caius Volusius serves in the Third legion.) “The fight raged thickest round the Third and Seventh legions, and the general, Antonius, came up with a picked band of auxiliaries to support their assault. The Vitellians, finding themselves unable to resist the attack of troops thus stubbornly vying with each other, and seeing their missiles all glide off the shelter of shields, at last sent their engine of war crashing down upon their heads. For the moment it scattered and crushed beneath it the men on whom it fell, but it dragged with it some of the battlements and the top of the rampart. At the same moment one of the towers on the rampart gave way under a shower of stones. While the men of the Seventh struggled up to the breach in close column, the Third hewed down the gate with hatchets and swords. All the authorities agree that Caius Volusius of the Third legion was the first man in.”

Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.