Antonius Primus (legate of the Seventh Legion in AD 69)

Convicted of forgery under Nero, restored to the Senate under Galba and appointed legate of the Seventh Legion. In the summer of AD 69 he took command of the legions of Pannonia and Moesia, which had gone over to Vespasian’s side. At the council at Poetovio he persuaded the commanders to march at once, without Vespasian’s knowledge or against his will; the order to wait at Aquileia came too late.

He defeated Vitellius’s army in the Second Battle of Bedriacum, also called the Battle of Cremona; the city was afterward sacked and burned. In December he entered Rome. The Senate gave him the insignia of a consul, but it was Mucianus who took power. Tacitus: “in peace the worst of citizens, in war an ally not to be despised.”