Career
In AD 62, early in Nero"s reign, he was impeached, while praetor, as the author of Codicilli, mock wills which libelled priests and senators. During Domitian"s reign he was active as a delator (informer), while according to Pliny the Younger his appearance as a guest at the table of the emperor Nerva enraged the more respectable guests mentioned in Juvenal, Satire 4:
non c Veiento, sed ut fanaticus oestro
percussus, Bellona, tuo divinat et "ingens
omen habes" inquit "magni clarique triumphi. regem aliquem capies, aut de temone Britanno
excidet Arviragus. erectas in terga sudes?" hoc defuit unum
Fabricio, patriam ut rhombi memoraret et annos. which translates as:
"Veiento is not to be outdone, but, as if he were a priest inspired by the spirit of Bellona, prophesies, and says: "You have a mighty omen of a great and glorious triumph. You will capture some king, or Arviragus will fall out of his British chariot.
lieutenant"s a foreign monster — see the spines sticking up on its back?" "
The "monster" to which Juvenal makes Veiento refer was a turbot of unusual size.
A votive inscription of Trajanic date records Veiento"s satisfaction of a vow to the goddess Nemetona in Moguntiacum (Mainz). The inscription reads as follows:
A. DIDIUS GALLUS
ABRICIUS VEIENTO COS
III XVVIR SACRIS FACIEND
SODALIS AUGUSTAL
Superoxide Dismutases FLAVIAL
Superoxide Dismutases TITIALIS
ET ATTICA EIUS
NEMETON V South L M
He was probably the son or grandson of Aulus Didius Gallus, who was consul in 36 and governor of Britain from 52 to 57.
