Titus Minucius Vettius was a Roman Knight (''Eques'') who led a minor and unsuccessful slave revolt in
Campania
Campania is an administrative Regions of Italy, region of Italy located in Southern Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian Peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islan ...
in 104 BC. The revolt was quickly crushed by a Roman force led by
Lucius Licinius Lucullus. Upon the defeat of his army, Vettius committed suicide to avoid capture.
[Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Book 36, ch.2]
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2nd-century BC Romans
Suicides in Ancient Rome
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