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had thrown a banquet in Blaesus' honor, and when his brother the emperor noticed the mansion lit up, he compelled his brother to have Blaesus killed, claiming he was courting both the army and the urban mob. The emperor Vitellius eliminated Blaesus by poisoning.
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with six cohorts and 500 cavalry crushing an insurgency of Vespasian's supporters. He had occupied Feronia and had captured
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and also to eliminate a potential threat to Nero's prospects, falsely charged Junia's brother
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through treachery when his brother surrendered. Lucius himself surrendered at
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Imperial Inquisitions: Prosecutors and informants from Tiberius to Domitian
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The best documented portion of his life was his last months, during the
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to his brother, who had just returned to Rome from his governorship of
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who lived in the 1st century. He was the second son of
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Index

Lucius Vitellius the Younger
Roman
senator
Lucius Vitellius
Aulus Vitellius
suffect consul
nundinium
Gaius Vipstanus Messalla Gallus
Junia Calvina
Augustus
Agrippina the Younger
Nero
Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus
Junia Calvina
Triaria
Suetonius
curator
proconsul
Africa
Claudius
Nero
Year of Four Emperors
Tacitus
Junius Blaesus
Gallia Lugdunensis
Caecina Tuscus
Vespasian
Campania
Tarracina
Bovillae

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