Tacitus: Histories and Annals

Julius Burdo

Family: Vitellian · Role: commander of the fleet on the Rhine · First appears: Histories I.58-62

Life events

  • Vitellius secured Julius Burdo's release after the soldiers' anger subsided.(Histories I.58-62)
    • With: Vitellius
    • “So Burdo was kept in confinement and only released after victory had allayed the soldiers' rancour.”

Histories I.58-62

  • enemies with Fonteius Capito “The indignation of the army had broken out against him, because he was supposed to have intrigued against Fonteius Capito, and to have accused him falsely.”
  • protégé: Vitellius “while Julius Burdo, who commanded the fleet on the Rhine, was adroitly rescued.”
  • patron: Vitellius “So Burdo was kept in confinement and only released after victory had allayed the soldiers' rancour.”

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