What is "anicetus"

Anicetus is a Latin given name, from Greek Ανίκητος (Aníkētos), means "invincible", and may refer to:

• Anicetus (admiral), a 1st-century fleet commander of the emperor Nero's
• Anicetus (pirate), a 1st-century pirate in Rome
• Anicetus (wasp), a wasp genus in the subfamily Encyrtinae
• Pope Anicetus
• Alexiares and Anicetus, minor gods in Greek mythology

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Anicetus was the leader of an unsuccessful anti- Roman uprising in Colchis in AD 69/ Formerly a freedman of King Polemon II of Pontus, Anicetus commanded the royal fleet until Polemonia was converted into a Roman province under Emperor Nero in 63. During the civil war following Nero’s death, Anicetus sided with Vitellius and led a general insurrection against Vespasian in Trapezus and Colchis 69. The rebels destroyed the Roman fleet (Classis Pontica) in a sudden attack on Trapezus and then turned to piracy using a type of boat known as camarae. According to D. Woods this Anicetus would be the same as Anicetus praefect of the praetorian fleet at Misenum.

The revolt was however put down by the Roman reinforcements under Virdius Geminus, a lieutenant of Vespasian. Overtaken at the mouth of the river Cohibus (now the Khobi River) located in Mingrelia of Lazica, Anicetus was surrendered to the Romans by the local tribesmen, and put to death.

Anicetus is a parasitic wasp genus in the subfamily Encyrtinae.

Anicetus was a freedman of the Roman emperor Nero, who, along with the freedman Beryllus, tutored the young emperor.

After tutoring Nero, Anicetus was made commander of the fleet at Misenum in 60 AD. He was later employed by the emperor to murder Nero's own mother, Agrippina the Younger. Nero wished to see his mother crushed in a collapsing boat, and employed Anicetus to see to it that this contraption was built. Nero put this strategy into action, though the collapsing boat failed to kill Agrippina. Afterwards, Anicetus himself stabbed Agrippina to death, on orders from Nero.

Anicetus was subsequently induced by Nero to confess having committed adultery with Nero's wife, Claudia Octavia. As punishment, Octavia was banished and died after immense suffering. For his supposed part in this crime, Anicetus was banished to Sardinia, where he lived in comfortable exile until his death of old age.