Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

VINI3836 T. Vinius (2)

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Life Dates

• 43, proscribed (Hinard 1985) Expand

  Hinard 43 no. 156

Relationships

married to

Tanusia (3) (daughter of? L. Tanusius (1) (eq. R. ?)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

App. b.c. IV 44 (187), Suet. Aug. 27.2

Career

• Praetor? 43 (Hinard 1985) Expand
  • Senator in 43. He was proscribed in 43 but was saved by his wife and his freedman, T. Vinius Philopoemen, being hidden in a chest in the latter's house (Suet. Aug. 27.2; App. BC 4.44; Dio 47.7.4-5). Augustus rewarded him with equestrian rank. Vinius was probably of senatorial rank, and may have attained the praetorship. According to Tacitus (Hist. 1.48), the father of T. Vinius Rufinus (PIR 3.437, no. 450; De Laet 170, no. 1157), born A.D. 21/22, belonged to a praetorian family, and his grandfather also, but Tacitus (Hist. 1.48) writes that his maternus avus was one of the proscribed. (TJC) See Syme, Sallust 228, note 52; Wiseman, NM 275, no. 496. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Hinard makes him praetorius when proscribed (Hinard 1985)

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