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AULUS CAECINA ALIENUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 934 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAECINA ALIENUS , See also:Roman See also:general, was See also:quaestor of Baetica in See also:Spain (A.D. 68). On the See also:death of See also:Nero, he attached himself to See also:Galba, who appointed him to the command of a See also:legion in upper See also:Germany. Having been prosecuted for embezzling public See also:money, Caecina went over to See also:Vitellius, who sent him with a large See also:army into See also:Italy. Caecina crossed the See also:Alps, but was defeated near See also:Cremona by Suetonius See also:Paulinus, the See also:chief general of See also:Otho. Subsequently, in See also:conjunction with See also:Fabius See also:Valens, Caecina defeated Otho at the decisive See also:battle of Bedriacum (Betriacum). The incapacity of Vitellius tempted See also:Vespasian to take up arms against him. Caecina, who had been entrusted with the repression of the revolt, turned traitor, and tried to persuade his army to go over to Vespasian, but was thrown into chains by the soldiers. After the overthrow of Vitellius, he was released, and taken into favour by the new See also:emperor. But he could not remain loyal to any one. In 79 he was implicated in a See also:conspiracy against Vespasian, and was put to death by See also:order of See also:Titus. Caecina is described by See also:Tacitus as a See also:man of handsome presence and boundless ambition, a gifted orator and a See also:great favourite with the soldiers.

Tacitus, Histories, i. 53, 61, 67-70, ii. 20-25, 41-44, iii. 13; Din See also:

Cassius lxv. 10-14, lxvi. 16; See also:Plutarch, Otho, 7; Suetonius, Titus, 6; See also:Zonaras xi. 17.

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