Roman Military — Minor Figures

4 figures from Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Julius Martialis

tribune of the Guards · first appears Histories I.81-84

• Histories I.81-84 · employer: Otho “Julius Martialis, a tribune of the Guards, and Vitellius Saturninus, the camp-prefect of the legion, were wounded while endeavouring to bar their progress.”

Vitellius Saturninus

camp-prefect of the legion · first appears Histories I.81-84

• Histories I.81-84 · employer: Otho “Julius Martialis, a tribune of the Guards, and Vitellius Saturninus, the camp-prefect of the legion, were wounded while endeavouring to bar their progress.”

Caius Cretonius

commander of the first legion · first appears Annals I (13)

• Annals I (13) · employer: Germanicus “These words softened them into supplicants: they confessed that all his reproaches were true; they besought him to punish the guilty and malicious, to pardon the weak and misled, and to lead them against the enemy; to recall his wife, to bring back his son, nor to suffer the fosterling of the legions to be given in hostage to the Gauls. Against the recalling of Agrippina he alleged the advance of winter, and her approaching delivery; but said, that his son should return, and that to themselves he left to execute what remained further to be executed. Instantly, with changed resentments, they ran, and seizing the most seditious, dragged them in bonds to Caius Cretonius, commander of the first legion, who judged and punished them in this manner.”

Seius Strabo

Captain of the Praetorian Guards · first appears Annals I (3)

• Annals I (3) · with Sextus Pompeius “then administered it to Seius Strabo and Caius Turranius”
• Annals I (3) · with Sextus Apuleius “then administered it to Seius Strabo and Caius Turranius”

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