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PRIMUS, MARCUS ANTONIUS

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PRIMUS, See also:MARCUS See also:ANTONIUS , See also:Roman See also:general, was See also:born at Tolosa in See also:Gaul about A.D. 30-35. During the reign of See also:Nero he was See also:resident in See also:Rome and a member of the See also:senate, from which he was expelled for See also:forgery in connexion with a will and was banished from the See also:city. He was subsequently reinstated by See also:Galba, and placed in command of the 7th See also:legion in See also:Pannonia. During the See also:civil See also:war he was one of See also:Vespasian's strongest sup-porters. Advancing into See also:Italy, he gained a decisive victory over the Vitellians at Bedriacum (or Betriacum) in See also:October 69, and on the same See also:day stormed and set See also:fire to See also:Cremona. He then crossed the See also:Apennines, and made his way to Rome, into which he forced an entrance after considerable opposition. See also:Vitellius was seized and put to See also:death. For a few days Primus was virtually ruler of Rome, and the senate bestowed upon him the See also:rank and insignia of a See also:consul. But on the arrival of See also:Licinius See also:Mucianus he was not only obliged to surrender his authority, but was treated with such ignominy that he See also:left Rome. Primus must have been alive during the reign of See also:Domitian, since four epigrams of See also:Martial are addressed to him. See also:Tacitus describes him as brave in See also:action, ready of speech, See also:clever at bringing others into odium, powerful in times of civil war and See also:rebellion, greedy, extravagant, in See also:peace a See also:bad See also:citizen, in war an ally not to be despised.

See Tacitus, Histories, ii., iii., iv.; Dio See also:

Cassius lxv. 9-21.

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