Gens Vitellia (Nova Roma)

In the time of Suetonius it was dis­puted whether the origin of the Vitellii was ancient and noble, or recent and obscure, and even mean. The adulators of the emperor Vitellius and his ene­mies were the partizans of the two several opinions. The name of the Vitellii at least was ancient, and they were said to derive their descent from Faunus, king of the Aborigines, and Vitellia, as the name is in the text of Suetonius. ( Vitell. c. 1.) The family, according to tradition, went from the country of the Sabini to Rome, and was received among the Patricians. As evidence of the existence of this family (stirps), a Via Vitellia, extending from the Janiculum to the sea, is mentioned, and a Roman colonia of the same name, Vitellia, in the country of the Aequi. (Liv. v. 29, ii. 39.) The name of the Vitellii occurs among the Romans who conspired to restore the last Tarquinius, and the sister of the Vitellii was the wife of the consul Brutus. (Liv. ii.4.)

Cassius Severus and others assigned the meanest origin to the Vitellii: the founder of the stock, ac­cording to them, was a freedman. Suetonius leaves the question undecided.

Source: Smith

Religio of the Vitellii

Patron Gods of the Gens Vitellia: Iuppiter Optimus Maximus, Mars pater

• Lararium of the Vitellii

History of the Vitellii

• History of Gens Vitellia ~ From the ancient History Sourcebook
  

• Publius Vitellius, Knight ~ Suetonius, Lives of the 12 Caesars
  

• Lucius Vitellius, Consul ~ Concerning Pontius Pilate in Judea
  

• Aulus Vitellius ~ Suetonius, Lives of the 12 Caesars
  

• Quintus Vitellius ~ Senator, Expusion from the Senate, Tacitus, Annals 2
  

• Publius Vitellius ~ Legatus to General Germanicus
  

• Aulus Vitellius Germanicus ~ Roman Emporer (69 AD)
  

• Lucius Vitellius ~ Brother of Emporer Vitellius, Tacitus Histories 2
  

• Proculus Vitellius ~ Centurion, The Works of Flavius Josephus: Antiquities of the Jews
  

• Events Following Emporer Vitellius' Death ~ The Works of Tacitus, Book IV
  

• Lucius Vitellius Tancinus ~ Cavalryman, Ala Vettonum CR, Legio II ADPF
  

• Gaius Vitellius Atticanus ~ Centurion, Legio VI Victix
  

• Marcus Flavius Vitellius Seleucus ~ Consul with C. Vettius Gratus Sabinianus, 221 CE
  

• Domus Vitellia ~ A Modern Guest House inside a wing of Santa Chiara's Convent in Rome