Vettius

Family: Roman · Role: informer · First appears: Julius Caesar 20

Life events

Vettius declared that certain persons had solicited him to assassinate Pompey.(Julius Caesar 20 · 📍 rostra)
- With: Pompey
- “Vettius to declare, that he had been solicited by certain persons to assassinate Pompey; and when he was brought before the rostra to name those who had been concerted between them”
Julius Caesar is supposed to have poisoned Vettius after abandoning the suspected stratagem.(Julius Caesar 20)
- With: Julius Caesar
- “Caesar, despairing of success in this rash stratagem, is supposed to have taken off his informer by poison.”

with Julius Caesar (Caesar induced Vettius by rewards to make a declaration.) “At last, effectually to intimidate all those of the opposite party, he by great rewards prevailed upon Vettius to declare, that he had been solicited by certain persons to assassinate Pompey;”
enemies with Pompey (The passage alleges that Vettius was solicited to assassinate Pompey, while also expressing suspicion of subornation.) “he had been solicited by certain persons to assassinate Pompey;”

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