Titus Clodius Vibius Varus was a
Roman
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senator
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who was
ordinary consul in AD 160 as the colleague of
Appius Annius Atilius Bradua
Appius Annius Atilius BraduaPomeroy, ''The murder of Regilla: a case of domestic violence in antiquity''Birley, ''The Roman government of Britain'' p. 114 was a Senator of the Roman Empire in the 2nd century AD.
Annius Bradua was born and raised i ...
. A bull offering was made to the goddess
Cybele
Cybele ( ; Phrygian: ''Matar Kubileya, Kubeleya'' "Kubeleya Mother", perhaps "Mountain Mother"; Lydian: ''Kuvava''; ''Kybélē'', ''Kybēbē'', ''Kybelis'') is an Anatolian mother goddess; she may have a possible forerunner in the earliest ...
for the health of Emperor
Antoninus Pius
Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius (; ; 19 September 86 – 7 March 161) was Roman emperor from AD 138 to 161. He was the fourth of the Five Good Emperors from the Nerva–Antonine dynasty.
Born into a senatorial family, Antoninus held var ...
and for the preservation of the ''Colonia Copia Felix Munatia'' (now
Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...
) on the fifth of December in the year of Vibius' consulate.
In his monograph on naming practices of the first centuries of the Imperial period, Olli Salomies writes confidently that Varus was the son of
Titus Vibius Varus, ordinary consul of 134. The scholar also suggests that the ''gentilicum'' Clodius and the presence of the uncommon ''praenomen'' Titus may indicate his mother was a Clodia, that is a female member of the ''
gens
In ancient Rome, a gens ( or , ; : gentes ) was a family consisting of individuals who shared the same ''nomen gentilicium'' and who claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens, sometimes identified by a distinct cognomen, was cal ...
''
Clodius
Clodius is an alternate form of the Roman '' nomen'' Claudius, a patrician ''gens'' that was traditionally regarded as Sabine in origin. The alternation of ''o'' and ''au'' is characteristic of the Sabine dialect. The feminine form is Clodia.
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.
[Olli Salomies, ''Adoptive and Polyonymous Nomenclature in the Roman Empire'' (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1992), pp. 99f]
References
Epigraphs
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2nd-century Roman consuls
Vibius Varus, Titus
Vibii
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