Lucius Vettius

Also known as: Vettius · Role: informer · First appears: Julius Caesar 17

Life events

Lucius Vettius accused Julius Caesar of complicity in Catiline’s conspiracy before Novius Niger.(Julius Caesar 17)
- With: Julius Caesar Novius Niger
- “being named amongst the accomplices of Catiline, both before Novius Niger the quaestor, by Lucius Vettius the informer”
Julius Caesar punished Lucius Vettius by seizing his goods, fining him, and imprisoning him.(Julius Caesar 17 · 📍 rostra)
- With: Julius Caesar
- “He, therefore, obliged Vettius to give pledges for his behaviour, seized his goods, and after heavily fining him, and seeing him almost torn in pieces before the rostra, threw him into prison”

enemies with Julius Caesar “Caesar, feeling that this treatment was not to be borne, appealed to Cicero himself, whether he had not voluntarily made a discovery to him of some particulars of the conspiracy; and so baulked Curius of his expected reward. He, therefore, obliged Vettius to give pledges for his behaviour, seized his goods, and after heavily fining him, and seeing him almost torn in pieces before the rostra, threw him into prison;”

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