Roman — Minor Figures
113 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.
Donatius
centurion · first appears Histories I.58-62
- Histories I.58-62 · enemies with Vitellius “Nonius, Donatius, Romilius, and Calpurnius, the centurions mentioned above, were executed by order of Vitellius.”
Nonius
centurion · first appears Histories I.58-62
- Histories I.58-62 · enemies with Vitellius “Nonius, Donatius, Romilius, and Calpurnius, the centurions mentioned above, were executed by order of Vitellius.”
Pompeius Propinquus
imperial agent in Belgica · first appears Histories I.58-62
- Histories I.58-62 · enemies with Vitellius “Thus Pompeius Propinquus, the imperial agent in Belgica, was promptly executed”
Romilius
centurion · first appears Histories I.58-62
- Histories I.58-62 · enemies with Vitellius “Nonius, Donatius, Romilius, and Calpurnius, the centurions mentioned above, were executed by order of Vitellius.”
Valerius Asiaticus
governor of Belgica · first appears Histories I.58-62
- Histories I.58-62 · friends with Vitellius “His party soon gained the accession of Valerius Asiaticus, governor of Belgica”
- Histories I.58-62 · with Vitellius “Valerius Asiaticus, governor of Belgica, who subsequently married Vitellius' daughter”
Aemilius Lepidus
nobleman · first appears Annals II (9)
- Annals II (9) · patron: Tiberius “the estate of the wealthy Aemilia Musa, claimed by the exchequer, as she died intestate, he surrendered to Aemilius Lepidus, to whose family she seemed to belong;”
Appius Appianus
senator · first appears Annals II (9)
- Annals II (9) · enemies with Tiberius “But, as he relieved the honest poverty of the virtuous, so he degraded from the Senate (or suffered to quit it of their own accord) Vibidius Varro, Marius Nepos, Appius Appianus, Cornelius Sylla, and Quintus Vitellius, all prodigals, and only through debauchery indigent.”
Charicles
physician · first appears Annals VI (7)
- Annals VI (7) · friends with Tiberius “Charicles, as if he were departing to attend his own affairs, under the appearance of paying duty and kissing his hands, touched his pulse. But the artifice beguiled not Tiberius; for he instantly ordered the entertainment to be served up; whether incensed, and thence the more smothering his wrath, is uncertain: but, at table he continued beyond his wont, as if he meant that honour only for a farewell to his friend.”