Lollianus (sometimes rendered in English as ''Lollian'') is a
Roman personal name which may refer to many figures of
classical antiquity, including:
*Lollianus (
Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus, sometimes called Lollianus Spurius), a general proclaimed emperor by his soldiers in Gaul and very soon murdered; he is one of the
"Thirty Tyrants" whose lives are briefly sketched in the ''
Historia Augusta''. He is the most important of those sharing the name.
*
Lollianus Avitus,
consul
Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states throug ...
in 144 AD, reported by the ''Historia Augusta'' (''Pert.'' i.5) to have given
Pertinax his first career break.
*Q. Flavius Maesius Egnatius Lollianus,
consul
Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states throug ...
in 355 AD, who appears in the letters of
St. Athanasius
*Q. Hedius Rufus Lollianus Gentianus, son of Lollianus Avitus: according to the ''Historia Augusta'' (Pert. vii.7) he dared criticize Pertinax, and got away with it.
*The orator and philosopher
Publius Hordeonius Lollianus Publius Hordeonius Lollianus ( grc, Πόπλιος Ὁρδεώνιος Λολλιανός) (2nd century AD) was a celebrated Greek sophist in the time of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius.
Referred to as just ''Lollianus'', by Philostratus,Philostratus ...
.
*Lollianus Titianus, a man ordered to arm gladiators at
Capua in the last days of
Didius Julianus
Marcus Didius Julianus (; 29 January 133 or 137 – 2 June 193) was Roman emperor for nine weeks from March to June 193, during the Year of the Five Emperors. Julianus had a promising political career, governing several provinces, including Dal ...
, according to the ''Historia Augusta'' (Did.Jul. viii.3).
*St. Lollianus, one of the
Seven Martyrs of Samosata, crucified with Saint Hipparchus and Philotheus, Abibus, James, Paregrus and Romanus by the emperor
Maximian in 297 AD for their refusal to participate in public worship of the Roman gods.
*The author of the ''
Phoinikika'' (''Phoenician Tales'').
*A man sentenced to death by the emperor
Valentinian I, ostensibly for authoring a book on black magic.
External links
Historia Augusta biographical sketch of the pretender Lollianus from Butler's Lives of the Saints
Ancient Roman prosopographical lists