Under the victor of the war, Vespasian, he served his second consulship, with Marcus Pompeius Silvanus Staberius Flavianus as colleague, in the third nundinium of the year 76.
[6] He was likely governor in the previous year, 68--both Tacitus and the inscription from Fundi mention that Flavianus achieved a military victory, likely beyond the middle Danube, for which he later received triumphal ornaments.
Here Tacitus describes him as "rich and advanced in year[s]", and was influenced by the provincial procurator, Cornelius Fuscus,[8] implying that Flavianus was unqualified to be governor of the province.
Later that year, when the legions of Pannonia declared for Vespasian and marched forth to battle the soldiers who had sided with Vitellius, shortly after reaching northern Italy and having taken positions before the city of Verona, they turned on Flavianus and attempted to murder him.
When speeches failed to quiet the men, Antonius resorted to trickery and ordered Flavianus loaded with chains and imprisoned.