Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
I. The New Inscription from Cales.
II. The Date of the Operations Recorded by the Inscription Dessau 8965.
III. The Identity of the General.
I. The following inscription (Not. Scav. 1929, p. 31) was recently discovered at Cales:
M. Vinicius P.f., M.n., L.pron., cos. II, VII vir [epu]lonum, sodalis Augustalis, thriumphalibus ornamentis, quinq(uennalis) viam ab angiporto aedi[s] Iunonis Lucinae usque [ad] aedem Matutae et [clivum] ab ianu ad g[isiarios portae] Stellatin[ae et viam patulam] ad portafm laevam et ab foro] ad port[am domesticam sua pecunia stravit].
page 142 note 1 The ancient evidence about Vinicius comes from Tac. Ann. VI, 15; Suet. Aug. 71; Dio 53, 26, 4; Vell. Pat. II, 96, 2–3 (cf. Florus II, 24), and 104, 2.
page 142 note 2 P.-W., s.v. P. Sulpicius Quirinius, col. 827.
page 142 note 3 Each mentions the ancestry of his grandson. Vell. Pat. II, 96 2, ‘avo tuo, consulari’; Tac. Ann. VI, 15, ‘Vinicio oppidanum genus: Calibus ortus, patre atque avo consularibus, cetera equestri familia erat.’
page 143 note 1 The argument from the second consulate is so strong that it is hardly necessary to mention another consideration. The Vinicius of the inscription was sodalis Augustalis, that is to say, he must have survived Augustus. Whether the grandfather lived so long, however, is uncertain.
page 143 note 2 Suet. Claud. 24; Dio 60, 23, I; Dessau 957.
page 143 note 3 Cf. Hübner, E., Das römische Heer in Britannien, Hermes XVI, 1881, pp. 524–6Google Scholar. The following passages from the ancient evidence justify the names mentioned here and the statements made about them: Dio 60, 21, 5; Dessau 957, 986; Suet. Galba 7; Tac. Ann. XI, 3; Eutrop. VIII, 13, 2; Josephus, Ant. J. XIX, 2, 1 ff.; 4, 3.
page 143 note 4 Tac. Ann. VI, 15.
page 143 note 5 Dio 60, 27, 4, ν μν γρ κα διαπρεπής νήρ, τν δ συχίαν ἂγων κα τ αυτο πράττων σῴζετο Cf. Tac. Ann. VI, 15.
page 143 note 6 Dio 60, 27, 1–4; Tac. Ann. XI, 1–3.
page 144 note 1 For example it is not mentioned in dessau's Geschichte. The most important references are: Premerstein, A. V., Ein Elogium des M. Vinicius, Cos. 19 v. Chr., Jahreshefte VII, 1904Google Scholar; E. Ritterling, P.-W., s.v. Legio, col, 1229; Dobiáš, J., Zadunajská uýprava M. Vinicia, Časopis Národního musea, 1922, pp. 81–98Google Scholar and 213–227 (inaccessible to me); Patsch, C., Beitaäge zur Völkerkunde von Südosteuropa V, 1 (Wiener Sitzungsberichte 214, I, 1932), p. 104 ffGoogle Scholar.: Domaszewski, A. V., Gesch. der y. Kaiser I, p. 222Google Scholar;E. Groag, P.-W., s.v. P. Sulpicius Quirinius, cols. 827–8.
page 144 note 2 Vell. Pat. II, 96, 2–3 (quoted below); cf. florus II, 24.
page 145 note 1 Noricum was probably annexed in 16 B.C., Dio 54, 20, 2. Velleius states that Carnuntum belonged to the kingdom of Noricum (II, 109, 3).
page 145 note 2 Vell. Pat. II, 96, 2–3, ‘Subinde bellum Pannonicum quod incohatum ab Agrippa Marcoque Vinicio, avo tuo, consulari, magnum atroxque et perquam vicinum imminebat Italiae per Neronem gestum est’; Dio 54, 31, 2–4, etc.; Suet. Tib. 9, ‘Pannonico (sc. bello) Breucos et Dalmatas subegit’; and, especially, Mon. Anc. 30, ‘Pannoniorum gentes qua[s a]nte me principem populi Romani exercitus nunquam ad[i]t, devictas per Ti. [Ne]ronem, qui tum erat privignus et legatus meus imperio populi Romani s[ubie]ci protulique fines Illyrici ad r[ip]am fluminis Dan[u]i.
page 145 note 3 For the nature and extent of the conquests of Tiberius, cf. the present writer, J.R.S. XXIII, 1, pp. 66–71, review of E. Swoboda, Octavian und Illyricum.
page 145 note 4 Drusus appears to have had dealings with them in 9 B.C. (Florus II, 30, 23; Orosius VI, 21, 15; Dio 55, 1, 2).
page 145 note 5 Vell. Pat. II, 106; Mon. Anc. 26. Cf. Tac. Ann. II, 45.
page 145 note 6 Dio 55, 10a, 2.
page 145 note 7 Lentulus is mentioned by name in Florus II, 28–9 and Tac. Ann. IV, 44; cf., however, also Mon. Anc. 30–31 and Strabo VII, p. 304. The commonly accepted modern date appears to be 11 A.D, P.-W., s.v. Cn. Cornelius Lentulus.
page 146 note 1 Vell. Pat. II, 100, 1.
page 146 note 2 Cf. Groag, P.-W., s.v. P. Sulpicius Quirinius.
page 146 note 3 To mention only the fact that Tacitus has given a summary of his chief claims to fame (Ann. III, 48).
page 147 note 1 Dio 53, 26, 4.
page 147 note 2 Vell. Pat. II, 96, quoted above, p. 145, n. 2.
page 147 note 3 The rehabilitation of Tiberius cannot be extended to cover his panegyrist. Velleius is mendacious as well as misleading. Tiberius marched to the Elbe in 5 A.D. This, sas Velleius, was ‘Numquam antea spe conceptum, nedum opere tentatum’ (II, 106, 2). But Drusus had reached the Elbe, Ahenobarbus had crossed it.
page 147 note 4 Suet. Nero 4.
page 147 note 5 Dio 55, 10a, 2. For the Pontes longi, cf. Tac. Ann. I, 63.
page 147 note 6 Tac. Ann. IV, 44, ‘post exercitu flumen Albim transcendit, longius penetrata Germania quam quisquam priorum, easque ob res insignia triumphi adeptus est’; Dio 55, 10a, 2, πρότερον μέν, ἒως ἒτι τν πρς τῷ 'Ιστρῳ χωρίων ἢρχε.