Trebellius Maximus

Family: Roman · Role: governor of Britain · First appears: Histories I.58-62

Life events

• Trebellius Maximus and Roscius Coelius began a fierce quarrel amid military insubordination.(Histories I.58-62 · 📍 Britain)
  • With: Roscius Coelius
  • “they now seized the opportunity of the civil war to break out into a fierce quarrel.”
• Trebellius Maximus fled Britain and took refuge with Vitellius.(Histories I.58-62)
  • With: Vitellius
  • “Trebellius, thus hunted out and abandoned, took refuge with Vitellius.”
• Petronius Turpilianus pacified the disturbances and transferred the Province to Trebellius Maximus.(Agricola (5))
  • With: Petronius Turpilianus
  • “Turpilianus, when he had quite appeased the late commotions, ventured upon nothing further, and then delivered the Province to Trebellius Maximus.”
• Trebellius fled the army's mutiny, then resumed command with precarious authority.(Agricola (5) · 📍 Britain)
  • “Trebellius, by flight and lurking, escaped the present fury of the army: he afterwards resumed the command, but with an authority altogether precarious”

Histories I.58-62

• enemies with Roscius Coelius “the action of his old enemy Roscius Coelius, who commanded the Twentieth legion, and they now seized the opportunity of the civil war to break out into a fierce quarrel.”
• with Vitellius (Trebellius sought refuge with Vitellius.) “Trebellius, thus hunted out and abandoned, took refuge with Vitellius.”

Agricola (5)

• with Petronius Turpilianus (Petronius Turpilianus transferred the province to Trebellius Maximus.) “Turpilianus, when he had quite appeased the late commotions, ventured upon nothing further, and then delivered the Province to Trebellius Maximus.”
• with Vettius Bolanus (Successive Roman governors of Britain.) “Moreover, the civil wars which then intervened, furnished a proper excuse for the lazy behaviour of the Governor. But he found himself greatly embarrassed with faction and discord; for that the soldiers, who had ever been inured to expeditions and feats in the field, were through idleness grown turbulent and licentious. Trebellius, by flight and lurking, escaped the present fury of the army: he afterwards resumed the command, but with an authority altogether precarious, without all spirit and destitute of all dignity; as if between him and them articles had been settled, that the soldiers should retain their licentious behaviour, and the General be permitted to enjoy his life. During this mutiny no blood was spilled. Neither did Vettius Bolanus, as the civil war yet subsisted, exert any discipline in Britain.”

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