A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

was left in the command of Syria by Bibulus, when he quitted the province in B. C. 50. (Cic. Att. 7.3.5.) Manutius supposes that Veiento was the quaestor of Bibulus, but we know that Sallust held this office (Cic. Fam. 2.17); and we may therefore conclude that Veiento was the legatus of Bibulus. The gentile name of Veiento is not mentioned, but it is not improbable that it was Fabricius, and that he was an ancestor of the following person.