Petronius Turpilianus

Family: Nero's forces · Role: ex-consul and general · First appears: Histories I.5-8

Life events

• Galba executed Cingonius Varro and Petronius Turpilianus without granting them hearings or defenses.(Histories I.5-8 · 📍 Rome)
  • With: Galba Cingonius Varro
  • “He executed Cingonius Varro, the consul-elect, and Petronius Turpilianus, an ex-consul, the former as an accomplice of Nymphidius, the latter as one of Nero's generals.”
• Petronius Turpilianus replaced Paulinus as Governor to govern the rebels more gently.(Agricola (5) · 📍 Britain)
  • With: Paulinus
  • “Insomuch that in his room Petronius Turpilianus was sent, as one whose behaviour would prove more relenting”
• Petronius Turpilianus pacified the disturbances and transferred the Province to Trebellius Maximus.(Agricola (5))
  • With: Trebellius Maximus
  • “Turpilianus, when he had quite appeased the late commotions, ventured upon nothing further, and then delivered the Province to Trebellius Maximus.”

Histories I.5-8

• enemies with Galba “He executed Cingonius Varro, the consul-elect, and Petronius Turpilianus, an ex-consul, the former as an accomplice of Nymphidius, the latter as one of Nero's generals.”
• employer: Nero “He executed Cingonius Varro, the consul-elect, and Petronius Turpilianus, an ex-consul, the former as an accomplice of Nymphidius, the latter as one of Nero's generals.”

Agricola (5)

• with Paulinus (Petronius Turpilianus replaced Paulinus as governor.) “Insomuch that in his room Petronius Turpilianus was sent, as one whose behaviour would prove more relenting”
• with Trebellius Maximus (Petronius Turpilianus transferred the province to Trebellius Maximus.) “Turpilianus, when he had quite appeased the late commotions, ventured upon nothing further, and then delivered the Province to Trebellius Maximus.”
• with Paulinus (Petronius replaced Paulinus as governor.) “Yet by the success of a single battle, he reduced the country to its old subjection, though several continued in arms, such namely as were conscious of inciting the rebellion, and under personal dread from the spirit of the Governor. He, though otherwise a signal commander, yet treated such as had surrendered themselves in a manner very imperious; and, as one who likewise avenged his own particular injury, thence exerted the greater rigour. Insomuch that in his room Petronius Turpilianus was sent, as one whose behaviour would prove more relenting, one who being unacquainted with the delinquencies of the enemies, would be more gentle in accepting their remorse and submission.”

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