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was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of [[]]. He held a number of offices, as well as imperial appointments. X was suffect consul in the nundinium of Y as the colleague of [[]]. He is known entirely from inscriptions.

References

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cursus honorum is partially known from an inscription set up at

The earliest office XXX would have held was in the decemviri stlitibus judicandis, one of the four boards that formed the vigintiviri; membership in one of these four boards was a preliminary and required first step toward a gaining entry into the Roman Senate. Next was as quaestor, and upon completion of this traditional Republican magistracy XXX would be enrolled in the Senate. Two more of the traditional Republican magistracies followed: plebeian tribune and praetor.

An inscription from XXX provides us the details of his career. His career began in his teens as one of the tresviri monetalis, the most prestigious of the four boards that comprise the vigintiviri; assignment to this board was usually allocated to patricians or favored individuals.

He began his career as one of the decemviri stlitibus judicandis, one of the four boards that form the vigintiviri; membership in one of these four boards was a preliminary and required first step toward a gaining entry into the Roman Senate.

as a tresviri capitales, one of the magistracies that comprised the vigintiviri. This was the least desirable of the four, for men who held that office rarely had a successful career: Anthony Birley could find only five tresviri capitales who went on to be governors of consular imperial provinces.

quattuorviri viarum curandarum, one of the magistracies that comprised the vigintiviri; membership in one of these four boards was a preliminary and required first step toward a gaining entry into the Roman Senate.

Once XXX had completed his duties as praetor, he was eligible to hold a number of important responsibilities.

praefectus frumenti dandi (the prefect responsible for the distribution of Rome’s free grain dole)

a member of the Quindecimviri sacris faciundis, the Roman priesthood entrusted with the care of the Sibylline oracles, and the sodales Flaviales, a less prominent collegia

the Septemviri epulonum, one of the four most prestigious ancient Roman priesthoods.

He was also one of the sevir equitum Romanorum of the annual review of the equites at Rome.

References

The usual sources

Paul A. Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Gaius", Antichthon, 13 (1974), p.

Paul A. Gallivan, "Some Comments on the Fasti for the Reign of Nero", Classical Quarterly, 24 (1974), p.

Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Claudius", Classical Quarterly, 28 (1978)

Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for A. D. 70-96", Classical Quarterly, 31 (1981), pp.

in his study of Imperial Roman nomenclature in his monograph of naming practices in the first centuries of the Roman Empire Olli Salomies, Adoptive and polyonymous nomenclature in the Roman Empire, (Helsinski: Societas Scientiarum Fenica, 1992),

Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 12 (1982),

Werner Eck, "Die Fasti consulares der Regungszeit des Antoninus Pius, eine Bestandsaufnahme seit Géza Alföldys Konsulat und Senatorenstand" in Studia epigraphica in memoriam Géza Alföldy, hg. W. Eck, B. Feher, and P. Kovács (Bonn, 2013),

Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p.

Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989), p.

Mireille Corbier, L'aerarium saturni et l'aerarium militare. Administration et prosopographie sénatoriale (Rome: École Française de Rome, 1974),

Bernard Rémy, Les carrières sénatoriales dans les provinces romaines d'Anatolie au Haut-Empire (31 av. J.-C. - 284 ap. J.-C.) (Istanbul: Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes-Georges Dumézil, 1989),

Werner Eck, Peter Weiß, "Hadrische Konsuln. Neue Zeugnisse aus Militärdiplomen", Chiron, 32 (2002),

Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012),

Attilio Degrassi, I fasti consolari dell'Impero Romano dal 30 avanti Cristo al 613 dopo Cristo (Rome, 1952),