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Calpurnianus
Calpurnianus is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Decrius Calpurnianus (died 48 AD), Roman Eques * Marcus Antius Crescens Calpurnianus (), Roman senator *Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi Calpurnianus Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi Calpurnianus was a Roman senator. Originally a member of the Calpurnia gens, gens Calpurnia, which claimed descent from Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, a Calpurnius Piso Frugi, he was adopted by Marcus Pupius, when ... (died before 47 BC), Roman senator {{Surname Latin-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Antius Crescens Calpurnianus
Marcus Antius Crescens Calpurnianus was a Roman senator, who held several offices, including acting governor of Roman Britain in the late second century AD, and as one of the ''quindecimviri sacris faciundis'' present at the Secular Games of 204. An approximate chronology of his career can be established. Two inscriptions found in Ostia attest to Calpurnianus present in that city as ''pontifex Volcani'' in the years 194 and 195. A fragmentary inscription from Rome attests that after serving as praetor he officially served as '' juridicus'' in Britain when he had to replace an unnamed consular, then after his election to the ''quindecimviri sacris faciundis'' the sortition awarded him the office of proconsular governor of Macedonia. Birley notes that most experts date Calpurnianus' tenure as acting governor to about 200 "on the death or sudden disappearance of Virius Lupus." However, there is no firm basis to presume he was elected to the ''quindecimviri'' in 204, nor that the two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi Calpurnianus
Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi Calpurnianus was a Roman senator. Originally a member of the Calpurnia gens, gens Calpurnia, which claimed descent from Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, a Calpurnius Piso Frugi, he was adopted by Marcus Pupius, when the latter was an old man. He retained, however, his family-name Piso. Life Piso had attained some importance as early as the Sulla#In the East, and The First Civil War, first civil war. On the death of Lucius Cornelius Cinna, in 84 BC, he married his wife Annia, and in the following year, 83, was appointed quaestor to the consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus (consul 83 BC), Lucius Cornelius Scipio. But he quickly deserted this party, and went over to Sulla, who compelled him to divorce his wife on account of her previous connection with Cinna. Piso was the father of Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi, a Roman politician who may have been praetor in 44 BC and could have been a legatus in 40 BC. His grandson may have been Marcus Licinius Crass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decrius Calpurnianus
Decrius Calpurnianus (died Autumn 48 AD) was a Roman '' Eques'' of the early Roman imperial period. Decrius Calpurnianus was ''praefectus vigilum''. He was executed, according to the Roman historian Tacitus, as well as several other distinguished Romans, as a confidant in the adultery committed by the empress Valeria Messalina Valeria Messalina (; ) was the third wife of Roman emperor Claudius. She was a paternal cousin of Emperor Nero, a second cousin of Emperor Caligula, and a great-grandniece of Emperor Augustus. A powerful and influential woman with a reputation ... with the young senator Gaius Silius in AD 48.Tacitus, Annals, 11, 35, 3 References Sources * Arthur Stein: Decrius 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Vol. IV,2, Stuttgart 1901, p. 2306. 48 deaths 1st-century Romans Praefecti vigilum Executed ancient Roman people 1st-century executions People executed by the Roman Empire Ancient Roman equites Year of bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |