Lucius Vitellius (consul 34)

This article is about the father of the emperor Vitellius. For his other son, the emperor's brother, see Lucius Vitellius (consul 48).
For other people with similar names, see Vitellia gens.
Lucius Vitellius on the reverse of a coin minted by his son.
Titulus of Pyramus, the cubicularius of Lucius Vitellius

Lucius Vitellius (before 7 BC – AD 51) was the youngest of four sons of procurator Publius Vitellius and the only one who did not die through politics. He was consul three times, which was unusual during the Roman empire for someone who was not a member of the Imperial family. The first time was in the year 34 as the colleague of Paullus Fabius Persicus;[1] the second was in 43 as the colleague of the emperor Claudius;[2] the third was in 47 again as the colleague of the emperor Claudius.[3]

  1. ^ Attilio Degrassi, I fasti consolari dell'Impero Romano dal 30 avanti Cristo al 613 dopo Cristo (Rome, 1952), p. 10
  2. ^ Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Claudius", Classical Quarterly, 28 (1978), pp. 408, 424
  3. ^ Gallivan, "Fasti for the Reign of Claudius", pp. 409, 425