Hilarus

Family: Imperial court · Role: freedman · First appears: Histories II.64-68

Life events

Vitellius punished Hilarus after Cluvius Rufus overcame the accusations against him.(Histories II.64-68)
- With: Vitellius
- “A freedman of the imperial court, Hilarus by name, had given evidence against him, alleging that, when Cluvius heard of the rival claims of Otho and Vitellius, he had endeavoured to set up an independent authority of his own in Spain, and to this end had issued passports with no emperor's name at the head. Certain phrases in his speeches were also construed as damaging to Vitellius and as a bid for his own popularity. However, Cluvius' influence carried the day, and Vitellius even had his own freedman punished.”

enemies with Cluvius Rufus “A freedman of the imperial court, Hilarus by name, had given evidence against him, alleging that, when Cluvius heard of the rival claims of Otho and Vitellius, he had endeavoured to set up an independent authority of his own in Spain”
employer: Vitellius (Hilarus is identified as an imperial freedman, and the following sentence refers to Vitellius's own freedman.) “A freedman of the imperial court, Hilarus by name, had given evidence against him, alleging that, when Cluvius heard of the rival claims of Otho and Vitellius, he had endeavoured to set up an independent authority of his own in Spain, and to this end had issued passports with no emperor's name at the head. Certain phrases in his speeches were also construed as damaging to Vitellius and as a bid for his own popularity. However, Cluvius' influence carried the day, and Vitellius even had his own freedman punished.”

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