Julius Agrestis

Family: Vitellian · Role: centurion · First appears: Histories III.53-56

Life events

• Vitellius sent Julius Agrestis to inspect the enemy and verify what had happened at Cremona.(Histories III.53-56 · 📍 Cremona)
  • With: Vitellius
  • “A centurion named Julius Agrestis, after many interviews, in which he endeavoured in vain to fire Vitellius' courage, at last with heroic persistence induced the emperor to send him to inspect the enemy's forces and discover what had really happened at Cremona.”
• Julius Agrestis committed suicide after Vitellius rejected his eyewitness report.(Histories III.53-56)
  • “He went straight from the emperor's presence and committed suicide.”

Histories III.53-56

• employer: Vitellius “A centurion named Julius Agrestis, after many interviews, in which he endeavoured in vain to fire Vitellius' courage, at last with heroic persistence induced the emperor to send him to inspect the enemy's forces and discover what had really happened at Cremona.”
• enemies with Vitellius (The text presents the claim as disputed.) “Some say he was killed by order of Vitellius, but they give the same account of his heroic devotion.”

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