Percennius

Family: Roman army · Role: common soldier · First appears: Annals I (6)

Life events

Percennius organized the most turbulent soldiers and incited them to violence and disorder.(Annals I (6) · 📍 Pannonia)
- “When he had thus ripened them for sedition, and other ready incendiaries were combined with him, he personated the character of a lawful Commander”
Drusus ordered the executions of Vibulenus and Percennius, leaders of the sedition.(Annals I (9))
- With: Drusus (Tiberius's son) Vibulenus
- “Vibulenus and Percennius were produced, and by his command executed;”

enemies with Junius Blesus “Thus stood affairs at Rome when a sedition seized the legions in Pannonia; without any fresh grounds, save that from a change of Princes, they meant to assume a warrant for licentiousness and tumult, and from a civil war hoped great earnings and acquisitions: they were three legions encamped together, all commanded by Junius Blesus, who, upon notice of the death of Augustus and the accession of Tiberius, had granted the soldiers a recess from their wonted duties for some days, as a time either of public mourning or festivity. From being idle they waxed wanton, quarrelsome, and turbulent; greedily listened to mutinous discourses; the most profligate amongst them had most credit with them, and at last they became passionate for a life of sloth and riot, utterly averse to all military discipline and every fatigue of the camp. In the camp was one Percennius; formerly a busy leader in the embroilments of the theatre, and now a common soldier; a fellow of a petulant, declaiming tongue, and by inflaming parties in the playhouse, well qualified to excite and infatuate a crowd. This incendiary practised upon the ignorant and unwary, such as were solicitous what might prove their future usage, now Augustus was dead. He engaged them in nightly confabulations, and by little and little incited them to violence and disorders”

enemies with Drusus (Tiberius's son) “Vibulenus and Percennius were produced, and by his command executed”

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