Asiaticus

Family: Julio-Claudian and Flavian houses · Role: freedman · First appears: Vitellius 12

Life events

Vitellius caught Asiaticus selling Posca and put him in chains.(Vitellius 12 · 📍 Puteoli)
- With: Vitellius
- “His master, some time after, caught him at Puteoli, selling a liquor called Posca, and put him in chains”
Vitellius released Asiaticus and retained him in his former capacity.(Vitellius 12)
- With: Vitellius
- “but soon released him, and retained him in his former capacity”
Vitellius sold Asiaticus to a strolling fencing-master.(Vitellius 12)
- With: Vitellius
- “he sold him to a strolling fencing-master”
Vitellius carried Asiaticus away before his gladiatorial performance.(Vitellius 12)
- With: Vitellius
- “he suddenly carried him off”
Vitellius gave Asiaticus his freedom after receiving provincial government.(Vitellius 12)
- With: Vitellius
- “when the fellow was to have been brought up to play his part at the conclusion of an entertainment of gladiators, he suddenly carried him off, and at length, upon his being advanced to the government of a province, gave him his freedom”
Vitellius presented Asiaticus with the gold rings at supper.(Vitellius 12)
- With: Vitellius
- “The first day of his reign, he presented him with the gold rings at supper”

patron: Vitellius (Vitellius was Asiaticus's former master and later patron.) “especially his freedman Asiaticus. This fellow had, when young, been engaged with him in a course of mutual and unnatural pollution, but, being at last quite tired of the occupation, ran away. His master, some time after, caught him at Puteoli, selling a liquor called Posca, and put him in chains, but soon released him, and retained him in his former capacity.”
with Vitellius (The passage describes a former sexual relationship.) “This fellow had, when young, been engaged with him in a course of mutual and unnatural pollution”

Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.