Junius Blaesus
Family: Roman · Role: governor of the Lyons division of Gaul · First appears: Histories I.58-62
Life events
- Junius Blaesus died, prompting widespread discussion.(Histories III.34-38)
- “It was at this time that the news of the death of Junius Blaesus gave rise to much talk.”
Histories I.58-62
- friends with Vitellius “His party soon gained the accession of Valerius Asiaticus, governor of Belgica, who subsequently married Vitellius' daughter, and of Junius Blaesus, governor of the Lyons division of Gaul”
Histories III.34-38
- rivals with Vitellius “You must requite his unseasonable gaiety with a night of deadly sorrow, in which he may both know and feel that Vitellius lives and is his emperor, and, if anything should happen, has a son to be his heir.”
- enemies with Lucius Vitellius “He had a mean and jealous dislike for Blaesus, whose spotless reputation far outshone his own, which was tainted with every kind of infamy.”
- enemies with Vitellius “You must requite his unseasonable gaiety with a night of deadly sorrow, in which he may both know and feel that Vitellius lives and is his emperor, and, if anything should happen, has a son to be his heir.”
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Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.