Aulus Caecina

Family: Roman army · Role: commander · First appears: Annals I (10)

Life events

The German legions raised a large-scale insurrection against their commanders.(Annals I (10) · 📍 Germany)
- With: Caius Silius Germanicus
- “the legions in Germany raised an insurrection, with greater numbers, and thence with more fury”
Aulus Caecina failed to restrain the mutinous soldiers.(Annals I (10))
- “Neither did Caecina strive to restrain them.”
Mutineers forced Aulus Caecina to surrender Septimius to destruction.(Annals I (10))
- “Septimius, who had for refuge fled to the tribunal of Caecina, and lay clasping his feet, was demanded with such imperious vehemence, that he was forced to be surrendered to destruction.”
The mutinous soldiers abolished their officers’ authority and assumed command themselves.(Annals I (10))
- With: Caius Silius Germanicus
- “After this no further authority remained to the Tribunes, none to the Camp-Marshals.”
Aulus Caecina, Lucius Apronius, and Caius Silius received triumphal honors.(Annals I (20))
- With: Lucius Apronius Caius Silius
- “The ornaments of triumph were this year decreed to Aulus Caecina, Lucius Apronius, and Caius Silius”

employer: Germanicus “Upon the Rhine were two armies; that called the higher, commanded by Caius Silius, Lieutenant-General; the lower, by Aulus Caecina: the command in chief rested in Germanicus, then busy collecting the tribute in Gaul.”

employer: Germanicus “The ornaments of triumph were this year decreed to Aulus Caecina, Lucius Apronius, and Caius Silius, for their services under Germanicus.”

employer: Vitellius “Thus when Caecina joined his army, he used every device to undermine the staunch fidelity of the centurions and soldiers to Vitellius.”
enemies with Vitellius “Thus when Caecina joined his army, he used every device to undermine the staunch fidelity of the centurions and soldiers to Vitellius.”

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