- Gaius Vibius Marsus
Gaius Vibius Marsus, whom
Tacitus calls "vetustis honoribus studiisque illustris"," is first mentioned in 19 AD as one of the most likely persons to obtain the government of Syria,Citation | last = Smith | first = William | author-link = William Smith (lexicographer) | contribution = Marsus, Vibius | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title =Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 3 | pages = 962 | publisher =Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/2070.html ] but the post wound up going to Gnaeus Sentius instead. [Tacitus , "Annales" vi. 47] In the same year he was sent to summonGnaeus Calpurnius Piso to Rome to stand his trial. His name occurs again in26 , in the debates of the senate; and just before the death ofTiberius in37 he narrowly escaped his own death, being accused as one of the accomplices of the notoriousAlbucilla . In47 we find him governor of Syria. [Tacitus , "Annales" ii. 74, 79, iv. 56, vi. 47, 48, xi. 10]The name of "Gaius Vibius Marsus",
proconsul , appears on several coins of Utica in Africa, struck in the reign ofTiberius : they probably relate to this Vibius Marius; and as he was disappointed in obtaining the province of Syria in the reign of Tiberius, he may have been appointed to that of Africa. [Joseph Hilarius Eckhel , vol. iv. pp. 147, 148]References
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