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Gaius Erucius Clarus
Gaius Erucius Clarus was a Roman politician and senator in the second century AD. Gaius Erucius Clarus was a member of the plebeian gens Erucia. His father was Sextus Erucius Clarus, consul in 146 AD, and Urban Prefect. He married Pomponia Triaria, daughter of the former consul Aulus Junius Rufinus. In 170 AD, Clarus was elected consul together with Marcus Gavius Cornelius Cethegus. Later on, Clarus was appointed Governor of Syria Palestina.The New Pauly's Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity, Ch.4, p.103 His son, Gaius Julius Erucius Clarus Vibianus Gaius Julius Erucius Clarus Vibianus (died 197 CE) was a Roman Empire, Roman politician and Roman Senator, senator. He was ''Roman consul, consul ordinarius'' with Quintus Pompeius Sosius Falco in early 193, during the reign of Pertinax. Life Vibi ..., served as consul in 193 AD.CIL 11, 619 References 2nd-century Roman consuls Erucii Senators of the Roman Empire 2nd-century Roman governors of Syria {{AncientRome-pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plebeians
In ancient Rome, the plebeians or plebs were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not Patrician (ancient Rome), patricians, as determined by the Capite censi, census, or in other words "commoners". Both classes were hereditary. Etymology The precise origins of the group and the term are unclear, but may be related to the Greek, ''plēthos'', meaning masses. In Latin, the word is a grammatical number, singular collective noun, and its genitive is . Plebeians were not a monolithic social class. In ancient Rome In the annalistic tradition of Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Dionysius, the distinction between patricians and plebeians was as old as Rome itself, instituted by Romulus' appointment of the first hundred senators, whose descendants became the patriciate. Modern hypotheses date the distinction "anywhere from the regal period to the late fifth century" BC. The 19th-century historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr believed plebeians were possibly foreigners im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erucia Gens
The ''gens Erucia'' was a plebeian family at Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned early in the first century BC; the name has been claimed as Etruscan. However, in the second century of the Empire, the Erucii attained considerable distinction.''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', William Smith, Editor. Praenomina used The praenomina associated with the Erucii are ''Gaius, Marcus'', and '' Sextus''. Branches and cognomina The only family of the Erucii known to history bore the cognomen ''Clarus''. Members :''This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.'' * Ericius, one of Sulla's legates in the First Mithridatic War, should perhaps be read ''Erucius''. * Gaius Erucius, the accuser of Sextus Roscius of Ameria, whom Cicero defended in 80 BC. He was also one of the accusers of Lucius Varenus, who was likewise defended by Cicero, who calls Erucius ''Antoniaster'', that is, an imitator of the orator An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sextus Erucius Clarus
Sextus Erucius Clarus (died March 146) was a Roman senator and aristocrat. He was Urban prefect and twice consul, the second time for the year AD 146. Clarus was the nephew of Gaius Septicius Clarus, a friend of Pliny the Younger. Erucius Clarus was also a friend of Pliny, who assisted him in obtaining from the Emperor Trajan the '' latus clavus'', allowing him to hold the office of quaestor; Ronald Syme dates when he held the magistracy as between the years 99 and 101. A letter from Pliny to Lucius Domitius Apollinaris (suffect consul 97) exists where the former asks the latter to help Clarus in his pursuit of the office of plebeian tribune. Clarus is also the addressee of a letter from Pliny. Aulus Gellius writes of Clarus as a contemporary, stating that he was very devoted to the study of ancient literature. Syme notes that after all of this attention to Clarus in the early stages of his career, and to his uncle, "Pliny seems to have forgotten about him." Darkness descends on C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praefectus Urbi
The ''praefectus urbanus'', also called ''praefectus urbi'' or urban prefect in English, was prefect of the city of Rome, and later also of Constantinople. The office originated under the Roman kings, continued during the Republic and Empire, and held high importance in late Antiquity. The office survived the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, and the last urban prefect of Rome, named Iohannes, is attested in 599. Lançon (2000), p. 45 In the East, in Constantinople, the office survived until the 13th century. Regal period According to Roman tradition, in 753 BC when Romulus founded the city of Rome and instituted the monarchy, he also created the office of ''custos urbis'' (guardian of the city) to serve as the king's chief lieutenant. Appointed by the king to serve for life, the ''custos urbis'' served concurrently as the '' princeps Senatus''. As the second highest office of state, the ''custos urbis'' was the king's personal representative. In the absence of the king fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pomponia Triaria
Pomponia is the female name for the Pomponia gens of Ancient Rome. This family was one of the oldest families in Rome. Various women bearing this name lived during the Middle and Late Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. The oldest known Pomponia was mother of a famous Roman general; the second and third were related to each other. The relationship between these women, if any, is not known. They descended from Pomponius, the first son of Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome. Pomponia, mother of Scipio Africanus Pomponia (fl. 212 BC) was a Roman woman who lived in the 3rd century BC. She came from a Roman noble family who were of plebeian status, and were prominent knights or equestrians. She was the daughter of the consul Manius Pomponius Matho, consul in 233 BC (who appears to have died in 211 BC), and was married possibly around 237 BC to Publius Cornelius Scipio, second surviving son of the Roman censor Lucius Cornelius Scipio of a prominent patrician family. Her husband ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aulus Julius Rufinus
Aulus (abbreviated A.) is one of the small group of common forenames found in the culture of ancient Rome. The name was traditionally connected with Latin ''aula'', ''olla'', "palace", but this is most likely a false etymology. ''Aulus'' in fact probably derives from Etruscan ''Avle'', ''Avile'', meaning "age/year" or "life". Aulus may refer to: * Aulus Agerius or Numerius Negidius (a name for the plaintiff in a lawsuit) * Aulus Atilius Calatinus * Aulus Avilius Flaccus * Aulus Ofilius * Aulus Caecina Alienus * Aulus Caecina Severus (suffect consul 1 BC) * Aulus Caecina Severus (writer) * Aulus Cornelius Celsus * Aulus Cornelius Cossus * Aulus Cremutius Cordus * Aulus Didius Gallus * Aulus Didius Gallus Fabricius Veiento * Aulus Gabinius * Aulus Gellius * Aulus Hirtius - consul after Caesar * Aulus Licinius Archias * Aulus Licinius Nerva Silianus * Aulus Metellus or Aule Metele * Aulus Paulinus - fictional governor of Britain in Chelmsford 123 * Aulus Persius Flaccus * Aulus Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Gavius Cornelius Cethegus
Marcus Gavius Cornelius Cethegus was a Roman senator active during the middle of the second century AD. He was ordinary consul for 170 as the colleague of Gaius Erucius Clarus. Cethegus is best known for his behavior while travelling through Roman Greece, which provoked one person to call him a great fool, to which the philosopher Demonax replied, "Not great" (οὐδὲ μέγα). He was the son of Marcus Gavius Squilla Gallicanus, consul in 150; a sister, Cornelia Cethegilla, has been identified. Olli Salomies, in his monograph on the naming practices of the Early Roman Empire, records a number of experts thought Cethegus and his sister were not natural, but adopted children of Gallicanus. After discussing the evidence, Salomies admits that he prefers the explanation that both "were Squilla Gallicanus' adoptive, not natural children." Cethegus may be the boy whose initial speech before the Roman senate was the subject of a letter the orator Fronto wrote to his father, one Sq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legatus Augusti Pro Praetore
A ''legatus Augusti pro praetore'' () was the official title of the governor or general of some Imperial provinces of the Roman Empire during the Principate era, normally the larger ones or those where legions were based. Provinces were denoted imperial if their governor was selected by the emperor, in contrast to senatorial provinces, whose governors (called proconsuls) were elected by the Roman Senate. A ''legatus Augusti'' was always a senator of consular or praetorian rank (i.e., who had previously held the office of consul or praetor). However, the position of the governor of Egypt ('' praefectus Aegypti'') was unparalleled, for though an '' eques'' (Roman knight) he had legions under his command. Some smaller imperial provinces where no legions were based (e.g. Mauretania, Thrace, Rhaetia, Noricum, and Judaea) were administered by equestrian ''praefecti'' (prefects) later designated ''procuratores'' ( procurators) who commanded only auxiliary forces. The ''legatus Augus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syria Palaestina
Syria Palaestina ( ) was the renamed Roman province formerly known as Judaea, following the Roman suppression of the Bar Kokhba revolt, in what then became known as the Palestine region between the early 2nd and late 4th centuries AD. The provincial capital was Caesarea Maritima.Bryce, Trevo (2009), ''The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia'' de Vaux, Roland (1978), ''The Early History of Israel'', p. 2: "After the revolt of Bar Cochba in 135, the Roman province of Judaea was renamed Palestinian Syria." It forms part of timeline of the period in the region referred to as Roman Palestine. Background Judaea was a Roman province that incorporated the regions of Judea, Samaria, Idumea, and Galilee and extended over parts of the former regions of Hasmonean and Herodian Judea. It was named after Herod's Tetrarchy of Judaea, but Roman Judaea encompassed a much larger territory than Judaea. The name "Judaea" ultimately traces to the Iron Ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaius Julius Erucius Clarus Vibianus
Gaius Julius Erucius Clarus Vibianus (died 197 CE) was a Roman Empire, Roman politician and Roman Senator, senator. He was ''Roman consul, consul ordinarius'' with Quintus Pompeius Sosius Falco in early 193, during the reign of Pertinax. Life Vibianus came from an Italian family or from one of the Western provinces. He was the son of Gaius Erucius Clarus, consul in 170 CE, who belonged to the powerful equestrian family of the Erucia (gens), Erucii. His paternal grandfather, Sextus Erucius Clarus, was consul in 146 CE, and before that praefectus urbi, City Prefect of Rome. His great-grandfather, who was consul ''suffectus'' in 117 CE, was the brother (or perhaps half-brother) of Gaius Septicius Clarus. His mother was Pomponia Triaria, the sister of Triarius Maternus, the consul of 185 CE. Initially appointed to the consulate by the emperor Commodus, in the aftermath of the emperor's assassination, it was alleged by the conspirators that Commodus had planned to murder Vibianus and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
