Vindex

Family: Gallic revolt · Role: rebel leader · First appears: Nero 41

Life events

Vindex issued numerous proclamations against Nero, provoking Nero to respond to the rebellion.(Nero 41)
- With: Nero
- “Being roused at last by numerous proclamations of Vindex, treating him with reproaches and contempt”
Nighttime protesters called for Vindex while pretending to reprimand their servants.(Nero 45)
- With: Nero
- “And many, in the night-time, pretending to find fault with their servants, frequently called for a Vindex.”
Galba accepted Vindex’s invitation to lead the revolt against Nero’s tyranny.(Galba 9 · 📍 New Carthage)
- With: Galba
- “Without any long demur, he accepted the invitation, from a mixture of fear and hope.”

enemies with Nero “Being roused at last by numerous proclamations of Vindex, treating him with reproaches and contempt, he in a letter to the senate exhorted them to avenge his wrongs and those of the republic”

enemies with Nero (The populace's call for Vindex expresses opposition to Nero.) “And many, in the night-time, pretending to find fault with their servants, frequently called for a Vindex.”

enemies with Nero “And when, in a speech of his to the senate against Vindex, these words were read, ‘that the miscreants should be punished and soon make the end they merited,’”

enemies with Nero “letters were brought from Vindex, requesting him ‘to assert the rights of mankind, and put himself at their head to relieve them from the tyranny of Nero.’”

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