Sextus Vettulenus Civica Cerialis was a
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of the early second century. He was
ordinary consul in AD 106 as the colleague of
Lucius Ceionius Commodus. No further details of his career are attested.
Cerialis is considered the son of
Sextus Vettulenus Cerialis, general and suffect consul in either 72 or 73. The younger Cerialis was married twice. By his first wife, whose name is not known, he had at least one son,
Sextus Vettulenus Civica Pompeianus, consul in 136. By his second wife, whose name has been surmised as
Plautia, Cerialis had another son,
Marcus Vettulenus Civica Barbarus, consul in 157.
Ronald Syme
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, "Antonine Relatives: Ceionii and Vettuleni", ''Athenaeum'', 35 (1957), pp. 306-315
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1st-century Romans
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