Petronius Urbicus

Family: Othonian · Role: governor · First appears: Histories I.67-71

Life events

• Caecina abandoned plans to attack Petronius Urbicus in Noricum.(Histories I.67-71 · 📍 Noricum)
  • With: Caecina
  • “he himself hesitated whether he should not cross the Raetian Alps into Noricum and attack the governor, Petronius Urbicus”

Histories I.67-71

• friends with Otho “Petronius Urbicus, who, having raised a force of irregulars and broken down the bridges, was supposed to be a faithful adherent of Otho.”
• enemies with Caecina “Caecina accordingly hurried forward the Gallic, Lusitanian, and British auxiliaries, and some German detachments, together with 'Petra's Horse', while he himself hesitated whether he should not cross the Raetian Alps into Noricum and attack the governor, Petronius Urbicus, who, having raised a force of irregulars and broken down the bridges, was supposed to be a faithful adherent of Otho.”

Also listed in Othonian — 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.