Varus Alfenus

Family: Vitellian · Role: commander · First appears: Histories II.41-44

Life events

• Caecina, Valens, and Varus Alfenus brought reinforcements against the Othonian flank.(Histories II.41-44)
  • With: Caecina Fabius Valens
  • “Caecina and Valens began to bring up the reserves to the support of their men, and, as a fresh reinforcement, there arrived Varus Alfenus with his Batavians.”

Histories II.41-44

• enemies with Otho (Varus Alfenus reinforces the Vitellian attack on the Othonian army.) “There arrived Varus Alfenus with his Batavians. They had routed the gladiators by confronting them and cutting them to pieces in the river before their transports could land, and flushed by their victory came charging in upon the flank of the enemy. Their centre broken, the Othonians fled in disorder, making for Bedriacum.”

Also listed in Vitellian — Minor Figures

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