Asiaticus

Family: Vitellian · Role: freedman of Vitellius · First appears: Histories II.54-58

Life events

• Vitellius granted Asiaticus equestrian rank at a private banquet.(Histories II.54-58)
  • With: Vitellius
  • “Then with characteristic instability he granted at a private banquet what he had refused in public.”
• Asiaticus rose to become an exceptionally powerful imperial freedman.(Histories II.92-95)
  • With: Vitellius
  • “It was not yet four months since Vitellius' victory, and yet his freedman Asiaticus was as bad as a Polyclitus or a Patrobius, or any of the favourites whose names were hated in earlier days.”

Histories II.54-58

• employer: Vitellius “When the army demanded that he should confer equestrian rank on his freedman Asiaticus, he checked their shameful flattery.”
• patron: Vitellius “When the army demanded that he should confer equestrian rank on his freedman Asiaticus, he checked their shameful flattery. Then with characteristic instability he granted at a private banquet what he had refused in public.”

Histories II.92-95

• friends with Vindex “While Vitellius was addressing the troops, they demanded the execution of three Gallic chieftains, Asiaticus, Flavus, and Rufinus, on the ground that they had fought for Vindex.”
• employer: Vitellius “It was not yet four months since Vitellius' victory, and yet his freedman Asiaticus was as bad as a Polyclitus or a Patrobius, or any of the favourites whose names were hated in earlier days.”

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