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We have three important, but extremely hostile sources for the life and reign of the Roman emperor Aulus Vitellius.

The historian Tacitus and the biographer Suetonius lived about fifty years after his reign, and describe him as a gluton who was absolutely unfit to rule. A century later, Cassius Dio, the greatest historian of this trio, offered a similar account.

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The hostility in their accounts can easily be explained: Vitellius became emperor lost his throne after a civil war, and the new emperor, Vespasian, lived long enough to see his propaganda become included in the works written by historians.

Future generations, therefore, only possessed biased accounts of the events in the "long but single" year of civil war, 69.

Aulus Vitellius was born on September 7, 15, as the oldest son of Sextilia and Lucius Vitellius, still a young man who was a protégé of the emperor Tiberius.

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