A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

1262 VINICIUS. VINIUS.
Vindicianus is preserved by Marcellus Empiricus, (M. Senec. Controy. 2, 3, 4, 20, 21, &c.; comp.
De Medicaen. c. 16. p. 316. [W. A. G.] L. Senec. Ep. 40.)
VIND'CIUS, the name of a slave, who is said 5. M. ViNICIUS, P. F. M. N., the son of No. 4,
to have given information to the consuls of the con- was born at Gales, a town in Campania, and is
spiracy, which was formed for the restoration of the spoken of by Tacitus as " mitis ingenio et comptae
Tarquins, and who was rewarded in consequence facnndiae." He was consul in A. D. 30 with C.
with liberty and the Roman franchise. He is said Cassius Longinns, and it was in this year that the
to have been the first slave manumitted by the historian Velleius Paterculus dedicated his work to
Vindicta, the name of which was derived by some him. [PATERCULUS.] In A. D. 33 Tiberius gave
persons from that of the slave; but it is unnecessary Julia Livilla, the daughter of Germanicus, in marto point out the absurdity of this etymology. (Liv. riage to Vinicius; and as Germanicus was by
iii. 4, 5; comp. Diet. ofAntiq. s. v. Manumissio.) adoption the son of Tiberius, Vinicius is called the
VINDULLUS, POMPEIUS, a freedman of progener of Tiberius. Vinicius was consul a second
Cn. Pompey, died at Laodiceia in B. C. 50. (Cic. time in the reign of Claudius, A. D. 45, with Taurus
ad Altt. vi. 1. ~ 25.) Statilius Corvinus. He was put to death by MesVINICIA'NUS, A'NNIUS, was accused of salina in the following year, to whom he had betreason (msajest.rs) together with his father Annius come an object of suspicion, because she had prePollio, towards the latter end of Nero's reign, but viously put to death his wife [JvLIa, No. 8], and
was not brought to trial. He afterwards conspired likewise an object of hatred because he had refused
with Camillus Scribonianus against the emperor her embraces. (Tac. Ann. vi. 15, 45; Dion Case.
Claudius, and, when the conspiracy was detected, lx. 25, 27.)
put an end to his own life. (Tac. Ann. vi. 9; Dion 6. V1NICIUS, the author of a conspiracy against
Cass. lx. 14.) Nero, detected and crushed at Beneventum. (Suet.
VINICIA'NUS, M. CAE'LIUS, tribune of the Aer. 36.)
plebs, B. c. 53, exerted himself to raise Pompey to 7. T. VINICIUS JULIANUS, consul suffectus under
the dictatorship, and was in consequence defeated Titus, A. D. 80. (Fasti.)
when he became a candidate for the curule aedile- VL'NIUS. 1. T. VINIUS was proscribed bythe
ship in a. c. 51. In the civil war he espoused the triumvirs B. c. 43, and owed his life to his wife
cause of Caesar, who left him behind in Pontus Tanusia, who concealed him in a chest at the house
with two legions after the conquest of Pharnaces in of his frieedman Philopoemen, and gave out that he
B.C. 48. (Caelius, ap. Cic. ad Fai. viii. 4. ~ 3; was dead. She afterwards obtained his pardon
HIirt. B. Alex. 77.) from Octavian, who raised Philopoemen to the
VINI'CIUS, or VINU'CIUS. The latter equestrian rank for his fidelity to his former master.
form occurs in inscriptions and in the Fasti, but the (Dion Cass. xlvii. 7; Suet. Oct. 27; Appian, B. C.
former in MSS. and editions. 1. L. VINICIUS, iv. 44, where Vseius is erroneously called Junius,
tribune of the plebs a. c. 51, put his veto upon and Philopoemen is also erroneously called P/hilea senatusconsultum, directed against Caesar. mon.) [PHILOrOEMEN,p. 321, a.]
(Caelius, ap. Cic. ad Faro. viii. 8. ~ 6.) 2. T. VINUvs, consul in A. D. 69 with the erm2. L. VINICIus, L. F., consul suffectus B.C. 33, peror Galba. Tacitus says that his father was of
was perhaps the same person as the preceding. The a praetorian family, and that his snaternal grandaccompanying coin was struck by this Vinicius, father was one of the proscribed; but as he bears
since we learn from other coins bearing on the oh- the same name as No. i, it is probable that the
verse the head of Augustus, that L. Vinicius was historian has made a mistake, unless he had by adoptriumvir of the mint under Augustus. The coin tion taken the name of his maternal grandfather.
annexed has on the obverse the head of Concordia, He first served under Calvisius Sabinus; and one
and on the reverse a figure of Victory with L. night he accompanied the wife of his commander,
VINICI. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 343.) who was dressed as a common soldier, through the
camp, and committed adultery with her in the
Principia, which was reckoned a sacred spot by the
Romans, because the eagles and standards were
deposited there. For that offence he was put in
-- 8iroiis by order of Caligula, but by the change of
s, K.~~ times was released and obtained successively the
praetorship and the command of a legion. He was
subsequently exposed to the imputation of having
stolen a gold goblet at the table of the emperor
COIN OF L. VINICIU. Claudius. He was notwithstanding appointed,
3. M. VINICIUS, P. F., consul suffectus B. C. 19, probably during the reign of. Nero, to the governcommanded in Germany in B.C. 25, and in con- ment of Gallia Narbonensis, with the title of pro..
sequence of his successes received the triumphal consul, where he ruled with justice and integrity,
ornaments; but as he declined these, an arch was and he was afterwards in Spain as the legatus of
erected to his honour in the Alps. (Dion Cass. liii. Galba. Through his friendship, with Galba he was
27.) He again commanded in Germany in A. D. 2, raised to the consulship on the accession of the latter
and again received the triumphal ornaments and to the empire. During the short reign of Galba
an inscription to his honour, perhaps on his statue the government devolved almost entirely upon
in the forum. (Vell. Pat. ii. 104.) Vinius and Cornelius Laco, the praefect of the
4. P. VINICIUS M. F. P. N., the son of No. 3, praetorian troops. The possession of such great
was consul A. n. 2 with P. Alfenius Vrarus, when power developed his evil passions, and he is called by
Tiberius returned to Rome from Rhodes. (Vell. Tacitus " deterrimus mortalium." Vinius recomPat. ii. 103.) Seneca mentions this P Vinicius mended Galba to choose Otho as his successor, and
and his brother Lucius as two celebrated orators. he was supposed by some to have been privy to the