Publius Vinicius

Publius Vinicius was a Roman senator active during the reigns of Emperors Augustus and Tiberius. He was the son of Marcus Vinicius, consul in 19 BC.[1]

Vinicius was ordinary consul in AD 2 with Publius Alfenus Varus, and was an imperial legate for Macedonia and Thracia. There he commanded a legion as military tribune under Lucius Calpurnius Piso.[2][3] Several years after his consulate, Vinicius was proconsular governor of Asia at some point between AD 10 and 15, but probably in AD 10/11.[4]

His son Marcus Vinicius was consul in AD 30 and a second time in the year 45.[5]

  1. ^ Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 426
  2. ^ Syme, Aristocracy, p. 289
  3. ^ Velleius Paterculus, The Roman History, II.101.3
  4. ^ K. M. T. Atkinson, "The Governors of the Province Asia in the Reign of Augustus", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 7 (1958), pp. 329f
  5. ^ Hermann Dessau, Prosopographia Imperii Romani. part 3, (1987) Berlin. pp. 436-437.