Gaius Vellaeus Tutor was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Tiberius. He was suffect consul in the second half of 28 as the colleague of Lucius Junius Silanus.[1] The primary event known for their consulship was the promulgation of the Lex Junia Vellae, which concerned how an heir could be disinherited.[2]

Little is known about Tutor, who is the only member of the gens Vellaeus to accede to the consulship, and only a little more about his gens. Less than half a dozen Vellaeii in total are attested: a Publius Vellaeus who in 21 was in command of the army in Thracia;[3] and three freedmen known from inscriptions recorded in Canusium, whose existence suggest Tutor came from that city.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 459
  2. ↑ Digest XXVI.2.10.2
  3. ↑ Tacitus, Annales III.39
  4. ↑ CIL IX, 351, CIL IX, 405, CIL IX, 406

Further reading

  • Werner Eck, "Vellaeus (3)", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band XIV (Stuttgart, 1974), col. 828.
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