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Vitelliorum originem alii aliam et quidem diuersissimam tradunt, partim ueterem et nobilem, partim uero nouam et obscuram atque etiam sordidam; quod ego per adulatores obtrectatoresque imperatoris Vitelli euenisse opinarer, nisi aliquanto prius de familiae condicione uariatum esset. [2] extat Q. †Elogi ad Quintum Vitellium Diui Augusti quaestorem libellus, quo continetur, Vitellios Fauno Aboriginum rege et Vitellia, quae multis locis pro numine coleretur, ortos toto Latio imperasse; horum residuam stirpem ex Sabinis transisse Romam atque inter patricios adlectam; [3] indicia stirpis mansisse diu uiam Vitelliam ab Ianiculo ad mare usque, item coloniam eiusdem nominis, quam gentili copia aduersus Aequiculos tutandam olim depoposcissent; tempore deinde Samnitici belli praesidio in Apuliam misso quosdam ex Vitellis subsedisse Nuceriae eorumque progeniem longo post interuallo repetisse urbem atque ordinem senatorium.
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