c. AD 120

Suet. Vit. 18.1

The Life of Vitellius 18.1

Author
Suetonius
Translator
J. C. Rolfe

The Life of Vitellius

18.1

Suetonius

translated by J. C. Rolfe

18He met his death, along with his brother and his son, in the fifty-seventh year of his age, fulfilling the prediction of those who had declared from an omen which befell him at Vienna, as we have stated, that he was destined to fall into the power of some man of Gaul. For he was slain by Antonius Primus, a leader of the opposing faction, who was born at Tolosa and in his youth bore the surname Becco, which means a rooster’s beak.