Marcus Hordeonius Flaccus (died 69 AD) was a

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who lived during the first century. He was

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for the ''

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'' of March to April 47 as the colleague of Gaius Calpetanus Rantius Sedatus, and later commander of the Rhine army during the

Batavian rebellion The Revolt of the Batavi took place in the Roman province of Germania Inferior between AD 69 and 70. It was an uprising against the Roman Empire started by the Batavi, a small but militarily powerful Germanic tribe that inhabited Batavia, on th ...

.G. Camodeca
"Novità sui fasti consolari delle tavolette cerate della Campania"
''Publications de l'École française de Rome'', 143 (1991), p. 52 In 69, the

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, Emperor

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ordered troops from the Rhine borders redeployed to Italy to support him against the rebellion of

Vespasian Vespasian (; la, Vespasianus ; 17 November AD 9 – 23/24 June 79) was a Roman emperor who reigned from AD 69 to 79. The fourth and last emperor who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors, he founded the Flavian dynasty that ruled the Empi ...

which Flaccus refused because he had heard rumors of a possible uprising of the Batavians. When Vitellius ordered forced recruitment of the Batavians, they rose in rebellion against the Romans.Livius.org: Marcus Hordeonius Flaccus
/ref> His indecision in which emperor to support (Vitellius or Vespasian), and his resulting inactivity in the containment of the Batavian rebellion, made his later reputation suffer in the works of

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. He was murdered by his own troops (still loyal to Vitellius) after trying to celebrate the victory of Vespasian.

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