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For these banquets, he had himself invited over to a different noble's house for each one.

He is even reported to have starved his own mother to death — to fulfill a prophecy that he would rule long if his mother died first.

Other writers, namely Tacitus and Cassius Dio, disagree with some of Suetonius ' assertions, even though their own accounts of Vitellius are scarcely positive ones.