Claudius Apollinaris

This article is about the 1st-century naval commander. For the 2nd-century Christian leader and writer, see Apollinaris Claudius.

Claudius Apollinaris was a man of ancient Rome who succeeded Lucilius Bassus as the commander, or praefectus classis, of Lucius Vitellius's fleet at Misenum, when Bassus defected to Vespasian's side in the year 70.[1][2] Apollinaris himself soon defected to Vespasian as well,[3] and he escaped with six galleys.

Notes

  1. ↑ Tacitus, Histories 3.57, 76,77
  2. ↑ Fields, Nic (2014). AD69: Emperors, Armies and Anarchy. Pen and Sword. ISBN 9781473838147. Retrieved 2016-02-28. A man neither firm in his loyalty, nor energetic in his treason.
  3. ↑ Newton, Homer Curtis (1901). Bennett, Charles Edwin; Sterrett, John Robert Sitlington; Bristol, George Prentice, eds. The Epigraphical Evidence for the Reigns of Vespasian and Titus. Cornell Studies in Classical Philology. 16. Cornell University Press. p. 8. Retrieved 2016-02-28.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Apollinaris, Claudius". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 230. 

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