Vinicius
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Vinicii Proper-name noun: masculine nominative plural, Proper-name noun: masculine genitive singular, Proper-name noun: masculine vocative plural of Vinicius
or Vinu'cius. The latter form occurs in inscriptions and in the Fasti, but the former in MSS. and editions.
1. L. Vinicius, tribune of the plebs B. C. 51, put his veto upon a senatusconsultum, directed against Caesar. (Caelius, apud Cic. ad Fam. 8.8.6.)
2. L. Vinicius, L. F., consul suffectus B. C. 33, was perhaps the same person as the preceding. The accompanying coin was struck by this Vinicius, since we learn from other coins bearing on the obverse the head of Augustus, that L. Vinicius was triumvir of the mint under Augustus. The coin annexed has on the obverse the head of Concordia, and on the reverse a figure of Victory with L. VINICI. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 343.)
3. M. Vinicius, P. F., consul suffectus B. C. 19, commanded in Germany in B. C. 25, and in consequence of his successes received the triumphal ornaments; but as he declined these, an arch was erected to his honour in the Alps. (D. C. 53.27.) He again commanded in Germany in A. D. 2, and again received the triumphal ornaments and an inscription to his honour, perhaps on his statue in the forum. (Vell. 2.104.)
4. P. Vinicius M. F. P. N., the son of No. 3, was consul A. D. 2 with P. Alfenius Varus, when Tiberius returned to Rome from Rhodes. (Vell. 2.103.) Seneca mentions this P. Vinicius and his brother Lucius as two celebrated orators. (M. Senec. Controv. 2, 3, 4, 20, 21, &c.; comp. L. Senec. Ep. 40.)
5. M. Vinicius, P. F. M. N., the son of No. 4, was born at Cales, a town in Campania, and is spoken of by Tacitus as " mitis ingenio et comptae facundiae." He was consul in A. D. 30 with C. Cassius Longinus, and it was in this year that the historian Velleius Paterculus dedicated his work to him. [Paterculus.] In A. D. 33 Tiberius gave Julia Livilla, the daughter of Germanicus, in marriage to Vinicius; and as Germanicus was by adoption the son of Tiberius, Vinicius is called the progener of Tiberius. Vinicius was consul a second time in the reign of Claudius, A. D. 45, with Taurus Statilius Corvinus. He was put to death by Messalina in the following year, to whom he had become an object of suspicion, because she had previously put to death his wife [Julia, No. 8], and likewise an object of hatred because he had refused her embraces. (Tac. Ann. 6.15, 45; D. C. 60.25, 27.)
6. Vinicius, the author of a conspiracy against Nero, detected and crushed at Beneventum. (Suet. Nero 36.)
7. T. Vinicius Julianus, consul suffectus under Titus, A. D. 80. (Fasti.)