Marcus Vinicius (consul 19 BC)

Marcus Vinicius was a Roman politician and military leader in the time of Augustus.

He came from Cales in Campania and, after his praetorship in 25 BC governor of the province of Gallia comata. In the year 19 BC Vinicius Suffektkonsul was. From 14 to 8 BC he commanded troops in the Balkans, where he took the field against the Pannonians. Between 11 and 9 BC Vinicius was governor of the province of Illyricum. A few years later, from 1 to 3/4 AD, he was commander in Germania (which was at that time no separate province ) and fought a Germanic revolt, whose only defeat of his successor, Augustus ' stepson Tiberius, succeeded.

Vinicius was a member of the priestly college of Quindecimviri Sacris Faciundis and was a friend of Augustus.