Hist. 1.49.1Pīsō ūnum et trīcēnsimum aetātis annum explēbat, fāmā meliōre quam fortūnā.Piso was completing his thirty-first year, with a reputation better than his fortune. Hist. 1.49.1Frātrēs eius Magnum Claudius, Crassum Nerō interfēcerant: ipse diū exul, quadrīduō Caesar, properātā adoptiōne ad hoc tantum maiōrī frātrī praelātus est ut prior occīderētur.Of his brothers, Magnus had been killed by Claudius, Crassus by Nero: he himself, long an exile, for four days a Caesar, was preferred to his elder brother by a hurried adoption only so that he might be killed first. Hist. 1.49.1Titus Vīnius quīnquāgintā septem annōs variīs mōribus ēgit.Titus Vinius lived fifty-seven years with a varied character. Hist. 1.49.1Pater illī praetōriā familiā, māternus avus ē prōscrīptīs.His father was of a praetorian family, his maternal grandfather one of the proscribed. Hist. 1.49.1Prīmā mīlitiā īnfāmis: lēgātum Calvīsium Sabīnum habuerat, cuius uxor malā cupīdine vīsendī situm castrōrum, per noctem mīlitārī habitū ingressa, cum vigiliās et cētera mīlitiae mūnia eādem lascīviā temptāsset, in ipsīs prīncipiīs stuprum ausa, et crīminis huius reus Titus Vīnius arguēbātur.His first military service was disgraceful: he had had as his commander Calvisius Sabinus, whose wife, with a perverse desire to view the layout of the camp, entered it by night in soldier's dress, and, after trying the watches and the other duties of the service with the same wantonness, dared to commit adultery in the headquarters itself; and Titus Vinius was charged as guilty of this offence.
Hist. 1.49.1Igitur iussū G.So by order of Gaius Hist. 1.49.1Caesaris onerātus catēnīs, mox mūtātiōne temporum dīmissus, cursū honōrum inoffēnsō legiōnī post praetūram praepositus probātusque servīlī deinceps probrō respersus est tamquam scyphum aureum in convīviō Claudiī fūrātus, et Claudius posterā diē sōlī omnium Vīniō fictilibus ministrārī iussit.Caesar he was loaded with chains, then released when times changed, and after an unchecked career of office, put in command of a legion after his praetorship and approved, he was later tainted with a slave's disgrace, on the charge of having stolen a gold cup at Claudius' banquet, and on the following day Claudius ordered that Vinius alone of all the guests be served on earthenware. Hist. 1.49.1Sed Vīnius prōcōnsulātū Galliam Narbōnēnsem sevērē integrēque rēxit;But Vinius governed Narbonese Gaul as proconsul strictly and honestly; Hist. 1.49.1mox Galbae amīcitiā in abruptum trāctus, audāx, callidus, promptus et, prōut animum intendisset, prāvus aut industrius, eādem vī.then, dragged over the brink by his friendship with Galba, he was bold, cunning, ready, and, as he had set his mind, wicked or industrious, with the same energy.
Hist. 1.49.1Testāmentum Titī Vīniī magnitūdine opum inritum, Pīsōnis suprēmam voluntātem paupertās firmāvit.The will of Titus Vinius was made void by the size of his wealth; Piso's last wishes were upheld by his poverty.