Varius Crispinus

Family: Othonian · Role: tribune of the guards · First appears: Histories I.77-80

Life events

• Mutineers killed Varius Crispinus and determined centurions during an arms distribution riot.(Histories I.77-80)
  • “When Crispinus tried to check them, the mutineers killed him together with the most determined of the centurions”
• The mutineers seized weapons, mounted horses, and rushed toward Rome and the palace.(Histories I.77-80 · 📍 Rome)
  • “seized their armour, bared their swords, and mounting the horses, made off at full speed for Rome and the palace.”

Histories I.77-80

• employer: Otho “Otho had given orders that the Seventeenth cohort should be summoned from the colony of Ostia to the city, and Varius Crispinus, a tribune of the guards, was instructed to provide them with arms.”

Also listed in Othonian — Minor Figures

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