Marcus Vitruvius Vaccus (d. 330 BC)[1] was a citizen of Fondi, and the leader of the revolt of the Fundani and Privernates against Rome in 330 BC.[2]

He was a man of considerable reputation both in his own state and also at Rome, where he had a house on the Palatine Hill. The consul Lucius Papirius Crassus was sent to quell the revolt, which he effected without difficulty. On the capture of Privernum,[3] Vaccus fell into the consul's hands, and was put to death after his triumph. His property was confiscated to the state, his house on the Palatine destroyed, and the site on which it stood was ever after called the Prata Vacci.[4]

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  •   This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainLeonhard Schmitz (1870). "M. Vitruvius Vaccus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 3. p. 1202.

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  1. ^ Monumenta Graeca et Romana: Mutilation and transformation : damnatio memoriae and Roman imperial portraiture. BRILL. 1 January 2004. pp. 16–. ISBN 90-04-13577-4.
  2. ^ Livy; J. C. Yardley; Dexter Hoyos (4 April 2013). Rome's Italian Wars. OUP Oxford. pp. 135–. ISBN 978-0-19-956485-9.
  3. ^ Saskia T. Roselaar (7 May 2012). Processes of Integration and Identity Formation in the Roman Republic. BRILL. pp. 203–. ISBN 978-90-04-22960-0.
  4. ^ Liv. viii. 19, 20; Cic. pro Dom. 38. (cited in Smith)