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.
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- ↑ Tacitus, Histories 3.57, 76,77
- ↑ Fields, Nic (2014) (in English). AD69: Emperors, Armies and Anarchy. Pen and Sword. ISBN 9781473838147. https://books.google.com/books?id=jUERBQAAQBAJ. Retrieved 2016-02-28. "A man neither firm in his loyalty, nor energetic in his treason."
- ↑ Newton, Homer Curtis (1901). Bennett, Charles Edwin; Sterrett, John Robert Sitlington; Bristol, George Prentice. eds (in English). The Epigraphical Evidence for the Reigns of Vespasian and Titus. Cornell Studies in Classical Philology. 16. Cornell University Press. pp. 8. https://books.google.com/books?id=rIQLAAAAIAAJ. Retrieved 2016-02-28.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed (1870). "Apollinaris, Claudius". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 230.
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