Antonius Primus

Also known as: Antonius / Primus · Family: Roman · Role: commander · First appears: Book IV, Chapter 9

In Book IV, Chapter 9, Antonius Primus was an enemy of Vitellius and, together with Mucianus, killed him and his German legions, bringing the civil war to an end.

By Chapter 11, Cecinna encountered Antonius at Cremona but would not fight after seeing his numerous, well-ordered forces; instead, he persuaded his officers to go over to Antonius. Antonius defeated Vitellius’s army, captured and destroyed Cremona, and allowed his soldiers to plunder it. Mucianus later came into the city with his army and ordered Antonius and his men to stop killing.

Relationship record

Life events

• Antonius Primus and Mucianus killed Vitellius, ending the civil war.(Book IV, Chapter 9)
  • With: Mucianus Vitellius (Roman emperor)
  • “how also the war in Gall ended; and how Galba was made emperor 16 and returned out of Spain to Rome; and how he was accused by the soldiers as a pusillanimous person, and slain by treachery in the middle of the market-place at Rome, and Otho was made emperor; with his expedition against the commanders of Vitellius, and his destruction thereupon; and besides what troubles there were under Vitellius, and the fight that was about the capitol; as also how Antonius Primus and Mucianus slew Vitellius, and his German legions, and thereby put an end to that civil war;”
• Cecinna and his army deserted Vitellius and went over to Antonius.(Book IV, Chapter 11 · 📍 Cremona)
  • With: Cecinna Vitellius (Roman emperor)
  • “but when he saw there that the enemy were numerous and in good order, he durst not fight them; and as he thought a retreat dangerous, so he began to think of betraying his army to Antonius. Accordingly, he assembled the centurions and tribunes that were under his command, and persuaded them to go over to Antonius”
• Antonius Primus defeated Vitellius’s army, destroyed Cremona, and captured the city.(Book IV, Chapter 11 · 📍 Cremona)
  • With: Vitellius (Roman emperor)
  • “and fell into the city together with the rest, and gave leave to his soldiers to plunder it. And here it was that many strangers, who were merchants, as well as many of the people of that country, perished, and among them Vitellius's whole army”

Book IV, Chapter 9

• enemies with Vitellius (Roman emperor) (Antonius Primus killed Vitellius in the civil war.) “as also how Antonius Primus and Mucianus slew Vitellius, and his German legions, and thereby put an end to that civil war;”

Book IV, Chapter 11

• enemies with Vitellius (Roman emperor) “Antonius Primus took the third of the legions that were in Mysia, for he was president of that province, and made haste, in order to fight Vitellius”
• enemies with Cecinna (Cecinna and Antonius commanded opposing forces.) “This Cecinna marched out of Rome in great haste, and found Antonius about Cremona in Gall, which city is in the borders of Italy; but when he saw there that the enemy were numerous and in good order, he durst not fight them”
• with Mucianus (Mucianus issued Antonius a military order.) “Mucianus came into the city with his army, and ordered Antonius and his men to leave off killing”
• with Cecinna (Cecinna planned to defect to Antonius Primus.) “so he began to think of betraying his army to Antonius.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Made with Rho MD.