Both witnesses walk him down the same Sacred Way — Tacitus with his face forced up 'to offer it to insulting blows,' made to watch his statues fall and see the spot where Galba died; Suetonius with the hiding place and the soldiers who did not recognize the emperor they were hunting. The year closes where it opened, at the price of a head.
death of Vitellius
kind: death · December 69 CE — the editor’s frame · 2 mentions across 2 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index
The last of the year's four emperors dragged from hiding and killed on the Gemonian stairs.
Anchored at 69 CE on the editor’s table of years .
· 69 CE — date secure ·
20 December 69 CE, the day Rome fell to the Flavians.
Suetonius · one account
16–17 the principal narrative The barricaded hiding place and the unrecognized emperor. Vitellius · J. C. Rolfe, 1913
They dragged Vitellius from his hiding-place and when they asked him his name (for they did not know him)Suet. Vit. 17
Tacitus · one account
3.84–3.85 the principal narrative The palace deserted, the hiding, the procession of insults to the stairs. The Histories · Alfred John Church & William Jackson Brodribb, 1864
Vitellius, compelled by threatening swords, first to raise his face and offer it to insulting blowsTac. Hist. 3.85
Emperor — a candidate entry Gaius — a candidate entry Galba — 1 episode shared Vespasian — 1 episode shared Vitellius — 1 episode shared
logoi — the words
No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.
mythoi — the stories
No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.
The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served